Gary L. Francione
Gary L. Francione
Gary Lawrence Francioneis an American legal scholar. He is the Distinguished Professor of Law and Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Scholar of Law & Philosophy at Rutgers School of Law–Newark...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEducator
CountryUnited States of America
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self bird underwater
We proclaim human intelligence to be morally valuable per se because we are human. If we were birds, we would proclaim the ability to fly as morally valuable per se. If we were fish, we would proclaim the ability to live underwater as morally valuable per se. But apart from our obviously self-interested proclamations, there is nothing morally valuable per se about human intelligence.
animal rights slavery
Animal rights without veganism is like human rights with slavery. It makes no sense. None whatsoever.
feel-better animal agriculture
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.
animal rights animal-rights
If an animal has any rights at all, it's got the right not to be eaten.
animal littles cost
It costs us so little to go vegan. It costs animals so much if we don't.
mean animal rights
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.
philosophy animal rights
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.
animal rights slaughter
We cannot talk simultaneously about animal rights and the 'humane' slaughter of animals.
writing animal rights
We need to reshape the movement as one of grassroots activists, and not 'professional activists' who populate the seemingly endless number of national animal rights groups. For many people, activism has become writing a check to a national group that is very pleased to have you leave it to them. Although it is important to give financial support to worthy efforts only, giving money is not enough and giving to the wrong groups can actually do more harm than good.
animal institutions existence
I maintain that we ought to abolish the institution and stop causing or facilitating the existence of more 'companion' animals.
animal animal-rights should
We should stop bringing more domestic animals into existence.
summer dog fighting
There is no difference between sitting around the pit watching dogs fight and sitting around a summer barbecue roasting the corpses of tortured animals or enjoying the dairy or eggs from tortured animals.
animal suffering-and-death decision
...eating animals involves an intentional decision to participate in the suffering and death of nonhumans where there is no plausible moral justification.
animal shifting paradigm
Veganism must be the baseline if we are to have any hope of shifting the paradigm away from animals as things and toward animals as nonhuman persons.