Killing animals is not a sin in itself. The Bible lets us kill animals for food and for real needs, and it condemns cruelty: “A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast” (Proverbs 12:10). The Catholic Catechism teaches that animals may be used for food and clothing, and that making them suffer or die needlessly is wrong. Both halves of that answer come from the same place. Jesus said of sparrows sold for a farthing that “one of them…

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