Editing Hunting (section)

===Christianity, Judaism, and Islam===
[[File:Ladies Hunting.png|thumb|Ladies hunting in the 15th century]]
[[File:Flanders Tapestry with the hunting scene.jpg|thumb|right|[[Tapestry]] with a hunting scene, late 16th century]]

From [[early Christian]] times, hunting has been forbidden to Roman Catholic Church [[cleric]]s. Thus the ''[[Corpus Juris Canonici]]'' (C. ii, X, De cleric. venat.) says, "We forbid to all servants of God hunting and expeditions through the woods with hounds; and we also forbid them to keep hawks or falcons." The [[Fourth Council of the Lateran]], held under [[Pope Innocent III]], decreed (canon xv): "We interdict hunting or hawking to all clerics." The decree of the [[Council of Trent]] is worded more mildly: "Let clerics abstain from illicit hunting and hawking" (Sess. XXIV, De reform., c. xii), which seems to imply that not all hunting is illicit, and canonists generally make a distinction declaring noisy (''clamorosa'') hunting unlawful, but not quiet (''quieta'') hunting.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|title=CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Hunting|url=https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07563c.htm|access-date=2021-12-29|website=www.newadvent.org|archive-date=29 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211229180338/https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07563c.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>

Ferraris gives it as the general sense of canonists that hunting is allowed to clerics if it be indulged in rarely and for sufficient cause, as necessity, utility or "honest" recreation, and with that moderation which is becoming to the ecclesiastical state. Ziegler, however, thinks that the interpretation of the canonists is not in accordance with the letter or spirit of the laws of the church.<ref name=":3"/>

Nevertheless, although a distinction between lawful and unlawful hunting<ref>{{Cite web |title=Canons On Hunting |url=https://www.catholic.com/encyclopedia/canons-on-hunting |access-date=2022-03-23 |website=Catholic Answers |archive-date=6 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906191059/http://www.catholic.com/encyclopedia/canons-on-hunting |url-status=live }}</ref> is undoubtedly permissible, it is certain that a bishop can absolutely prohibit all hunting to the clerics of his diocese, as was done by [[synod]]s at [[Milan]], [[Avignon]], [[Liège]], [[Cologne]], and elsewhere. [[Benedict XIV]] declared that such synodal decrees are not too severe, as an absolute prohibition of hunting is more conformable to the [[Canon law|ecclesiastical law]]. In practice, therefore, the synodal statutes of various localities must be consulted to discover whether they allow quiet hunting or prohibit it altogether.<ref name=":3"/> Small-scale hunting as a family or [[subsistence farming]] activity is recognised by [[Pope Francis]] in his encyclical letter, [[Laudato si']], as a legitimate and valuable aspect of employment within the food production system.<ref>Cardinal [[Peter Turkson]], [https://s3.amazonaws.com/catholicrurallife/wp-content/uploads/20150827184825/10-13.pdf Laudato Si and the Vocation to Agriculture: A Prince of the Church explains the connection], published in Catholic Rural Life Magazine, Summer 2015, accessed 29 January 2024</ref>

Hunting is not forbidden in [[Jewish law]], although there is an aversion to it. The great 18th-century authority [[Rabbi Yechezkel Landau]] after a study concluded although "hunting would not be considered cruelty to animals insofar as the animal is generally killed quickly and not tortured... There is an unseemly element in it, namely cruelty." The other issue is that hunting can be dangerous and Judaism places an extreme emphasis on the value of human life.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aish.com/ci/be/The_Jewish_Ethicist_Judaism_and_Hunting.html|title=The Jewish Ethicist: Judaism and Hunting|website=aish.com|date=13 February 2011|access-date=24 February 2016|archive-date=12 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160312075553/http://www.aish.com/ci/be/The_Jewish_Ethicist_Judaism_and_Hunting.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/1589324/jewish/The-Jewish-View-on-Hunting-for-Sport.htm|title=The Jewish View on Hunting for Sport|website=chabad.org|access-date=24 February 2016|archive-date=12 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160212024839/http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/1589324/jewish/The-Jewish-View-on-Hunting-for-Sport.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>

Islamic [[Sharia|Sharia Law]] permits hunting of lawful animals and birds if they cannot be easily caught and slaughtered. However, this is only for the purpose of food and not for trophy hunting.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newmuslimguide.com/en/your-food-and-drink/66|title=Hunting according to Islamic Law|author=New Muslim Guide|website=newmuslimguide.com|access-date=2 April 2016|archive-date=16 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160416015829/http://www.newmuslimguide.com/en/your-food-and-drink/66|url-status=live}}</ref>