It does not discuss the benefit to human beings of right treatment of animals. Indeed, it implies that even when respect for animals does not coincide with human benefit it is still required of Christians. Perhaps it is partly for this reason that this topic has been ignored by the World Council of Churches and by most of its member churches up to now. To bring this neglect to focused attention, this section is more extensive. It rejects anthropocentrism by affirming the integrity of creation with peculiar vividness.
Some examples follow.
Cosmetics and Household Products. The ethic of the liberation of life is a call to Christian action. This is not a simple question of kindness, however laudable that virtue is. It is an issue of strict justice. In all our dealings with animals, whether direct or indirecct, the ethic for the liberation of life requires that we render unto animals what they are due, as creatures with an independent integrity and value.