Overview:
– CVA encourages Christians to reduce or eliminate animal products for stewardship.
– CVA is an international, non-denominational ministry.
– CVA promotes ethical, environmental, and health benefits of plant-based diets.
– CVA connects animal-based diets to world hunger, ecological damage, mistreatment, and disease.
History:
– CVA founded in 1999 by Nathan Braun and Stephen H. Webb.
– Board includes respected professors, theologians, and activists.
– “What Would Jesus Eat…Today?” has an annual distribution of 250,000.
– “Good News for All Creation” published in 2002 and revised in 2004.
– Produced a documentary film “Honoring God’s Creation” in 2006.
See also:
– Animal rights.
– Christian pacifism.
– Christian vegetarianism.
– List of vegetarian organizations.
– Notable figures like Bruce Friedrich and Peter Singer.
References:
– Kris Hiuser’s theology of animals and Christian response.
– “Food and Faith: Vegetarianism in religion.”
– Resources from Viva! Health.
– “Toward a Vegetarian Christendom” by Aren Roukema.
– Various historical works and figures related to vegetarianism.
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The Christian Vegetarian Association (CVA) is an international, interdenominational Christian vegetarian organization that promotes responsible stewardship of God's creation through plant-based eating. The CVA advocates vegetarianism from a biblically-based, Christian perspective and sees dietary choice as a valid way to bear witness to Christ's ministry of love, peace, mercy and compassion, and prepare for the Peaceable Kingdom as foretold in the Bible.