Kindness to animals

Not to burden an animal with more than it can bear

"Burden not an animal with more than it can bear. We, truly, have prohibited such treatment through a most binding interdiction in the Book. Be ye the embodiments of justice and fairness amidst all creation."

(Bahá'u'lláh, Kitáb-i-Aqdas, par. 187)

"y. Prohibitions" -> "xx. Cruelty to animals"

(Synopsis and Codification of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, section IV.D.1.y.xx)

See also

• Animal
• Diet (re: vegetarian diet being preferable)
• Hunting (re: not hunting to excess)
• Vivisection

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