Despite the huge suffering that animals undergo in the name of research, the Bible has said nothing about the worth of animals. No laws banning animal cruelty exist in the Bible. The Bible God commands us to subdue the animal world - a word that means "to trample on" or "bring into bondage." The Bible God only advises care for animals when you need them. He or it never mentions caring for an animal for its own sake. No reward from God is mentioned if you care for animals.
The Bible God through Paul denies that animals matter in 1 Corinthians 9
7 Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its grapes? Who tends a flock and does not drink the milk?
8 Do I say this merely on human authority? Doesn’t the Law say the same thing?
9 For it is written in the Law of Moses: “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.” Is it about oxen that God is concerned?
10 Surely he says this for us, doesn’t he? Yes
Not surprisingly after what we read about how God wanted the people of Amalek treated in the Bible, he wanted them to be subjected to a blood fest of genocide - the Bible opposes the rights of animals. A Bible that wants people treated like dirt will allow worse for animals.
Jesus said that a human being is worth more than a sparrow. That does not assert that the human life and the life of the sparrow are unequal in value but the human being could be worth more in the sense that the sparrow will not live as long and so the human comes first. Jesus did miracles in which a huge catch of fish was made - resulting in great loss of life.
God commanded that animals be slain as sacrifices to him. The animals throat was cut and it died horribly.
To this Christians might say that there was no kinder way to dispatch them. So it is a necessary evil. People killing animals for food is one thing. It being a necessary evil would mean that they do nothing to make the killing seem good and noble. This would mean that killing in sacrifice is wrong for such killing is worship and to be praised and is a celebration. If it is a necessary evil to kill animals, it is not a necessary evil to kill them in sacrifice. The Bible teaching that sacrifice is only right if you have a pure heart is outrageously hypocritical.
Jesus attended Temple worship though the centre of it and the purpose of it was sacrifice. He told people to use the Temple. He upheld the validity of the bloodsoaked Old Testament. It spent a lot of time pornifying animal sacrifice and blood and the ritual was horrific and sick. You have little about justice to your neighbour but loads about how to murder animals in the name of faith and keep the priests eating the sacrifices well fed.
The demons are the first to say Jesus is God's son so he lets them say it when he could stop them in the first place. Jesus reportedly put demons into pigs which tormented the pigs so that they went and drowned themselves and thus is leaving the demons free again to look for a new home and pigs are dead in the process! He was no true enemy of the demons! He was of the animals!
The Gadarene demoniac was able to break the chains which secured him with the power of the demons. Matthew 8 shockingly says there were TWO of these superhuman possessed men. There is a cloud hanging over Jesus' innocence with regard to sorcery. The possessed men's demons were not cast out by Jesus but moved to a herd of swine that drowned itself illustrating that Jesus held that animals had no rights. If killing them was acceptable that would only be if they were really needed for food and they would have to be killed painlessly. That did not apply in this case.
He ate meat though the animals had been cruelly put to death. So much for the perfect man! I would consider a vegetarian to be a better person than Jesus. Compassion is strongest in vegetarians. Buddhism says that each person must see that personal identity is an illusion so that he or she can engage in unselfish acts without interference by the ego or selfish side of human nature. Buddhism insists that seeing yourself as a person is the root of selfishness and hard heartedness. If it is right, Jesus made the problem worse for he even went as far as to say we have souls or spirits and our sense of personhood is no illusion. As the founder of a religion, he is to blame for all the selfish things that religion has done and thus is no better than evil incarnate.
It is easily forgotten that when the Bible and even the nasty apostles of Jesus in the book of Acts command that God’s children should not eat blood or eat meat with blood in it that it is asking that animals for eating be killed as cruelly as possible by making them bleed to death until nothing is left. You cannot kill an animal and get the blood out after for the blood will not run out well. This killing is now illegal though its being moral and a divine duty is still recognised by conservative Jews. What kind of God or Jesus would become incarnate in a society that was so brutal? Christians must ask themselves that.
When a mad ox killed anybody it had to be stoned to death even though its owner could have kept it in (Exodus 21:32). Obviously the ox is being punished for killing because the Law could have punished the owner so that he would not dream of being careless with it again. The only time the Bible seems to defend animal rights is when it says a wise man is good to his animals (Proverbs 12:10). But it is not said that this ought to be done for the animal’s sake but when the man is called wise it means that it is best for him and therefore wise to look after his animals. And Deuteronomy 22:6,7 permits nest robbing whether for eggs or the little birds provided the mother bird is allowed to live. The reason is that there will always be enough birds to go around. It would be kinder and smarter to allow only the removal of eggs.