Religion & Animal and Food Justice
Religion & Animals and Food Justice
Panelists:
Christopher Carter, Assistant Professor, Assistant Chair and Department Diversity Officer of Theology and Religious Studies, University of San Diego
Lori G. Beaman, Professor and holder of the Canada Research Chair in Religious Diversity and Social Change, University of Ottawa
Cohosts:
Andrea R. Jain, Professor of Religious Studies, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Jonathan Sparks-Franklin, Independent Scholar
At this time of planetary crisis and pandemic, it is critical to address questions about overlapping and multispecies injustice. This episode will interrogate issues about food accessibility and the frontline communities of climate change (human and non-human animal), specifically those who are the first to bear the brunt of environmental degradation and pandemics and the industries and policies most responsible for contributing to them. These panelists illuminate the ways that religious institutions are constructed and enacted in response to these evolving social and environmental conditions, especially as they pertain to animal, food, and racial justice; the histories of activist communities; and the work of diverse coalitions, including Black vegans, radical healthcare advocates, and animal rescue efforts, that imagine and enact forms of multispecies solidarity in the midst of society’s death-dealing structures. Join humanities and social science scholars for a conversation at the intersection of religion, animal rights, and food justice.