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It’s really not rocket science. If animals are not mere things; if they have moral value, we cannot justify eating, wearing, or using them particularly when we have no better reason than palate pleasure or fashion. If you are eating, wearing, or using animals, then your actions say that you regard them as mere things, despite what your words say (Gary L Francione Quotes)
There is no ‘need’ for us to eat meat, dairy or eggs. Indeed, these foods are increasingly linked to various human diseases and animal agriculture is an environmental disaster for the planet (Gary L Francione Quotes)
Vegetarianism as a moral position is no more coherent than saying that you think it morally wrong to eat meat from a spotted cow but not morally wrong to eat meat from a non-spotted cow (Gary L Francione Quotes)
Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans (Gary L Francione Quotes)
Veganism is not about giving anything up or losing anything; it is about gaining the peace within yourself that comes from embracing nonviolence and refusing to participate in the exploitation of the vulnerable (Gary L Francione Quotes)
Forty-two years after Dr. King was murdered, we are still a nation of inequality. People of color, women, gays, lesbians, and others are still treated as second-class citizens. Yes, things have changed but we have still not achieved equality among all humans. And nonhuman animals continue to be chattel property without any inherent value (Gary L Francione Quotes)
Being vegan is not just a matter of being ‘kind’ to animals. First and foremost, it is a matter of being just and observing our moral obligation to not treat other sentient beings as things (Gary L Francione Quotes)
Every sentient being values her/his life even if no one else does. That is what is meant by saying that the lives of all have inherent value (Gary L Francione Quotes)
They are nonhuman persons. They are not food. If animals matter morally at all, there is one and only one rational response: go vegan. Everything else is just participation in animal exploitation (Gary L Francione Quotes)
You don’t have to love animals to recognize that it is immoral and unjust to exploit them. But if you do love animals, but you continue to participate in their exploitation, you need to rethink your idea of what love means (Gary L Francione Quotes)
I certainly believe that we have a moral obligation to care for the dogs, cats, and other nonhumans whose existence we have caused or facilitated as part of the institution of ‘pet’ ownership. But I maintain that we ought to abolish the institution and stop causing or facilitating the existence of more ‘companion’ animals (Gary L Francione Quotes)
The theory of animal rights simply is not consistent with the theory of animal welfare... Animal rights means dramatic social changes for humans and non-humans alike; if our bourgeois values prevent us from accepting those changes, then we have no right to call ourselves advocates of animal rights (Gary L Francione Quotes)
Not only are the philosophies of animal rights and animal welfare separated by irreconcilable differences... the enactment of animal welfare measures actually impedes the achievement of animal rights... Welfare reforms, by their very nature, can only serve to retard the pace at which animal rights goals are achieved (Gary L Francione Quotes)
Animal rights without veganism is like human rights with slavery. It makes no sense. None whatsoever (Gary L Francione Quotes)
Michael Vick may enjoy watching dogs fight. Someone else may find that repulsive but see nothing wrong with eating an animal who has had a life as full of pain and suffering as the lives of the fighting dogs. It’s strange that we regard the latter as morally different from, and superior to, the former (Gary L Francione Quotes)
There is increasing social concern about our use of nonhumans for experiments, food, clothing and entertainment. This concern about animals reflects both our own moral development as a civilization and our recognition that the differences between humans and animals are, for the most part, differences of degree and not of kind (Gary L Francione Quotes)
When it comes to animal agriculture, there is conventional, which is rally hideous, and ‘compassionate’ and ‘certified humane’ or whatever, which ‘may’ be ‘slightly’ less hideous. But it is all torture. It’s all wrong. These ‘happy’ gimmicks are just designed to make the public feel better about exploiting animals. Don’t buy the propaganda of ‘happy’ exploitation. Go vegan and promote veganism (Gary L Francione Quotes)
There is no ‘need’ for us to eat meat, dairy or eggs. Indeed, these foods are increasingly linked to various human diseases and animal agriculture is an environmental disaster for the planet. (Gary L Francione Quotes)
There is no moral distinction between fur and other materials made from animals, such as leather, which also is the result of the suffering and death of sentient beings. (Gary L Francione Quotes)
We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience. (Gary L Francione Quotes)
Most of the time, those who use animals in experiments justify that use by pointing to alleged benefits to human and animal health and the supposed necessity of using animals to obtain those benefits. (Gary L Francione Quotes)
If you love animals but think that veganism is extreme, then you are confused about the meaning of love. (Gary L Francione Quotes)
...eating animals involves an intentional decision to participate in the suffering and death of nonhumans where there is no plausible moral justification. (Gary L Francione Quotes)
We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defence of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience. (Gary L Francione Quotes)
If you think that being vegan is difficult, imagine how difficult it is for animals that you are not vegan. (Gary L Francione Quotes)
We cannot justify treating any sentient nonhuman as our property, as a resource, as a thing that we an use and kill for our purposes (Gary L Francione Quotes)
In order to be a teacher you’ve got to be a student first (Gary L Francione Quotes)
Who I’ve been is not as important as who I’m becoming (Gary L Francione Quotes)
We should stop bringing more domestic animals into existence (Gary L Francione Quotes)
We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals (Gary L Francione Quotes)
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