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A campaign is asking church leaders across the country to give up eating meat for Lent, writes Rachel Harden. The Veg4Lent campaign aims to "promote vegetarianism throughout Christendom" in 2002 by mailing all the Anglican and Roman Catholic clergy with letters and flyers about the Lent project. The campaign's promotional literature calls on Christians "to extend the principles of love, mercy and reverence towards the two million animals otherwise killed daily in the UK". It also says that Christians will live "healthier and more spiritually consistent lives in forsaking an acquired taste for meat". Veg4Lent, sponsored by the charity Christian Response (Worldwide), is looking for new members, area coordinators, and directors. It pledges to revive "the ancient Christian tradition of abstaining from meat-consumption during Lent", and sees Lent as an opportunity for "reflection and prayer for all those currently condemned to the slaughterhouse". Its Vegetarian Diet for Lent Action Pack, available to churches, quotes resolutions of the 1998 Lambeth Conference, and concludes with a comment from Pope John Paul II that turning vegetarian "can also help you win salvation". Patrons of the campaign include the Reverend Professor Andrew Linzey of Blackfriars Hall, Oxford, who said on Wednesday that he thought that "vegetarianism is a modern aesthetic imperative," and that, "without knowing it, those who eat meat are actually participating in the systematic cruelty and exploitation of animals." In practice, he said, "it is impossible to produce meat on the vast scale we have it without its being detrimental to animals." The movement's website is located at www.veg4lent.org Church Times (25/1/02) |
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