'Cow-slaughter a sin’

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32879, 30 March 1972, Page 11

' Cow-slaughter a sin’

(N.Z.P A. -Reuter—Copyright) ■ SYDNEY, March 29. Queen Elizabeth’s former chaplain, Lord MacLeod, has described the killing of cows in European Economic Community countries to keep the price of milk high as a sin compared with which adultery is negligible. Lord MacLeod, who is 76, said on arirval in Australia last night for a month-long lecture tour that the spending of millions on armaments, and rich nations’ giving aid to the poor but tying them with trade agreements, qualified amply as examples of “a world brimming with sins.” The former Moderator of the Church of Scotland then

said: “The Common Market countries, suffering the curse of plenty, killed 250,000 cows to keep up the price of milk —and that is a sin with which adultery is a mere bagatelle.” A life peer who will go on to the United States from Australia, to study the Jesus Freaks movement, Lord MacLeod described that as “a reformation.” “The Church has needed a reformation every 500 years or so, and the Jesus Freaks are it for this round,” he said. “The Church has become an airy-fairy wing, and the Jesus Freaks are going to Q9VP it . . the Church is getting away from the Bible, and drifting into the clouds. The Bible is about bodies, the salvation of bodies—not the spiritual comfort," he added.