 | To inform UUs and other people of conscience about the widespread abuse of
animals; |
| To encourage UU ministers, lay leaders, and congregants to open a dialogue
about this challenging moral issue; |
| To work toward the adoption of a General Resolution on the Ethical
Treatment of Animals at the General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist
Association, and to encourage the study and implementation of that Resolution
in UU congregations around the world; |
| To incorporate humane education materials and attitudes into our religious
education programs at all age levels; |
| To encourage UU ministers to deliver sermons on animal rights issues and
to develop services on animals during the yearly calendar; |
| To develop and support social action programs to implement our goals of
justice and compassion for all creatures; |
| To work, along with other people of humane and compassionate beliefs,
toward the exclusion of cruel, wasteful and repetitive testing of commercial
products; duplicative, unnecessary, wasteful and even frivolous biomedical
research using animals; the widespread abuse of "food" animals on factory
farms and in transit to slaughter, the destruction of fur-bearing animals for
profit; "sport hunting", and events which mistreat animals for entertainment;
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| To encourage UUs and others to explore and adopt a more humane lifestyle,
focusing on ethical consumerism, vegetarianism, the use of cruelty-free
products and the development of alternatives to the use of animals in research
and products testing. |
