Protect animals from pain, injury, and disease
Prevent suffering and provide timely veterinary care, treatment, or humane relief.
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WORLD MORALS EDITION XXI
Use humane methods when animals are killed
Minimize fear, pain, and distress through competent, appropriate, and regulated methods.
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
- 4/52
- Nonreligious systems
- 3/41
- Represented systems
- 7/93
- Specific anchors*
- 1/7
7.7%
7.3%
7.5%
14.3%
*Calculated from source labels beginning “Specific”; not a count of verified quotations.
Corpus definition
Minimize fear, pain, and distress through competent, appropriate, and regulated methods.
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
Overall %: source 7.4 · recomputed 7.5269
Evidence, mapping by mapping
7 selected mappings
Earth Charter Ethics · Official framework-level anchor
Use humane methods when animals are killed · 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 9830. Source publisher, date, translation and license have not been validated.
Mahayana Bodhisattva Ethics · Official framework-level anchor
Use humane methods when animals are killed · System profile
Workbook anchor (not a quotation)
Brahma's Net Sutra and bodhisattva precept traditions
Open original source ↗ bdkamerica.org
Official framework-level anchor · Dharmic / Buddhist
Framework-level mapping: verify exact text, school, translation, historical context, and scope before formal quotation.
Independent review pending. Edition XXI · Teaching Evidence · row 9831. Source publisher, date, translation and license have not been validated.
Maimonidean 613 Mitzvot Ethics · Official framework-level anchor
Use humane methods when animals are killed · 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 9832. Source publisher, date, translation and license have not been validated.
Red Cross and Red Crescent Humanitarian Ethics · Official framework-level anchor
Use humane methods when animals are killed · System profile
Workbook anchor (not a quotation)
Seven Fundamental Principles of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
Open original source ↗ www.icrc.org
Official framework-level anchor · International humanitarian ethics
Framework-level mapping: verify exact article, doctrinal context, historical setting, and scope before formal quotation.
Independent review pending. Edition XXI · Teaching Evidence · row 9833. Source publisher, date, translation and license have not been validated.
Soto Zen Buddhist Ethics · Official framework-level anchor
Use humane methods when animals are killed · System profile
Workbook anchor (not a quotation)
Soto Zen official precept and practice framework
Open original source ↗ www.sotozen.com
Official framework-level anchor · Dharmic / Buddhist
Verify the exact translation, ritual context, and interpretive scope before formal quotation.
Independent review pending. Edition XXI · Teaching Evidence · row 9834. Source publisher, date, translation and license have not been validated.
Theravada Buddhist Ethics · Official framework-level anchor
Use humane methods when animals are killed · System profile
Workbook anchor (not a quotation)
Five Precepts, Noble Eightfold Path, and Pali Canon ethical teachings
Open original source ↗ www.accesstoinsight.org
Official framework-level anchor · Dharmic / Buddhist
Framework-level mapping: verify exact text, school, translation, historical context, and scope before formal quotation.
Independent review pending. Edition XXI · Teaching Evidence · row 9835. Source publisher, date, translation and license have not been validated.
World Organisation for Animal Health Ethics · Specific primary/official anchor
Use humane methods when animals are killed · System profile
Workbook anchor (not a quotation)
WOAH animal-welfare standards for humane handling and killing
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 9836. 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 fear and distress
Manage handling, housing, transport, and environments to reduce avoidable fear and distress.
Provide animals adequate food and water
Ensure animals under human control are free from hunger, malnutrition, and thirst.
Unmodified source statistics
| Primary Rank - Religious | 407 |
|---|---|
| Overall Rank | 403 |
| Nonreligious Rank | 360 |
| Religious Frequency Tier | 36 |
| Religions Sharing | 4 |
| Religious Systems | 52 |
| Religious % | 7.7 |
| Nonreligious Groups Sharing | 3 |
| Nonreligious Groups | 41 |
| Nonreligious % | 7.3 |
| All Systems Sharing | 7 |
| All Systems | 94 |
| Overall % | 7.4 |
| Direct Official Anchors | 1 |
| Direct Evidence % | 14.3 |
| Cross-Sphere Balance Index | 94.8 |
| Religious Adoption Gap | 0.4 |
Specialized or emerging teaching