Protect animals from fear and distress
Manage handling, housing, transport, and environments to reduce avoidable fear and distress.
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WORLD MORALS EDITION XXI
Provide animals adequate food and water
Ensure animals under human control are free from hunger, malnutrition, and thirst.
Comparative atlas · Original English corpus · Evidence before conclusions
A mapping is not a verified quotation. Workbook labels are preserved. An absent mapping does not mean rejection. We do not rank the moral worth of any system.
- Religious systems
- 2/52
- Nonreligious systems
- 2/41
- Represented systems
- 4/93
- Specific anchors*
- 1/4
3.8%
4.9%
4.3%
25.0%
*Calculated from source labels beginning “Specific”; not a count of verified quotations.
Corpus definition
Ensure animals under human control are free from hunger, malnutrition, and thirst.
This is the atlas’s definition, not a substitute for a tradition’s own interpretation. Scope, exceptions and translations require review of each source.
Preserved calculation difference
The original index differs from recomputed unique-system or specific-anchor counts. Both are retained; the source file is unchanged.
All Systems: source 94 · recomputed 93
Evidence, mapping by mapping
4 selected mappings
Earth Charter Ethics · Official framework-level anchor
Provide animals adequate food and water · System profile
Workbook anchor (not a quotation)
Earth Charter principles of respect, ecological integrity, justice, democracy, nonviolence, and peace
Open original source ↗ earthcharter.org
Official framework-level anchor · Global ecological and social ethics
Framework-level mapping: verify the exact principle or article, affected community, legal status, and interpretive scope before formal quotation.
Independent review pending. Edition XXI · Teaching Evidence · row 10318. Source publisher, date, translation and license have not been validated.
Maimonidean 613 Mitzvot Ethics · Official framework-level anchor
Provide animals adequate food and water · System profile
Workbook anchor (not a quotation)
Maimonides' Sefer HaMitzvot and Mishneh Torah, with Torah source texts
Open original source ↗ www.chabad.org
Official framework-level anchor · Abrahamic / Jewish
Jewish commandments may be ritual, civil, agricultural, Temple-specific, group-specific, or universally ethical; mapping does not erase those distinctions.
Independent review pending. Edition XXI · Teaching Evidence · row 10319. Source publisher, date, translation and license have not been validated.
Meher Baba Spiritual Ethics · Official framework-level anchor
Provide animals adequate food and water · System profile
Workbook anchor (not a quotation)
Official Meher Baba messages on love, sacrifice, renunciation, control, service, and truth
Open original source ↗ www.mehercenter.org
Official framework-level anchor · South Asian spiritual tradition
Framework-level mapping: verify exact doctrinal wording, translation, historical setting, institutional authority, and scope before formal quotation.
Independent review pending. Edition XXI · Teaching Evidence · row 10320. Source publisher, date, translation and license have not been validated.
World Organisation for Animal Health Ethics · Specific primary/official anchor
Provide animals adequate food and water · System profile
Workbook anchor (not a quotation)
WOAH Five Freedoms: freedom from hunger, malnutrition, and thirst
Open original source ↗ www.woah.org
Specific primary/official anchor · International animal-welfare ethics
Framework-level mapping: verify exact article, section, context, and scope before formal quotation.
Independent review pending. Edition XXI · Teaching Evidence · row 10321. Source publisher, date, translation and license have not been validated.
History and geography: source limits
This edition does not supply a historical genealogy or coordinates for this teaching. Transmission, invention, population and geographic presence are not inferred from a mapping.
Explore connections in the same category
Shared systems in the corpus, not evidence of historical influence.
Protect animals from pain, injury, and disease
Prevent suffering and provide timely veterinary care, treatment, or humane relief.
Provide appropriate physical comfort
Protect animals from harmful temperatures, exposure, confinement, and physical discomfort.
Unmodified source statistics
| Primary Rank - Religious | 499 |
|---|---|
| Overall Rank | 494 |
| Nonreligious Rank | 408 |
| Religious Frequency Tier | 38 |
| Religions Sharing | 2 |
| Religious Systems | 52 |
| Religious % | 3.8 |
| Nonreligious Groups Sharing | 2 |
| Nonreligious Groups | 41 |
| Nonreligious % | 4.9 |
| All Systems Sharing | 4 |
| All Systems | 94 |
| Overall % | 4.3 |
| Direct Official Anchors | 1 |
| Direct Evidence % | 25 |
| Cross-Sphere Balance Index | 77.6 |
| Religious Adoption Gap | -1.1 |
Specialized or emerging teaching