The future of animal Agriculture

For a paper I am doing in Public Theology our assignment was to write a submission to a (real or imagined) commission of inquiry. For the purposes of this, I am responding to a (currently imaginary) commission of inquiry into the future of animal agriculture in Aotearoa/NZ. As this is a public theology paper I am looking at the issues with animal agriculture and arguing a theological perspective on how we should respond.

The Future of Animal Agriculture

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