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Gary Lawrence Francione (born May 1954) is 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.

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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.

Animal, Exploit, Exploitation, Ideas, Mean, Participate

99% of our uses of animals, including our numerically most significant use of them for food, do not involve any sort of necessity or any real conflict between human and nonhuman interests. If animals matter morally at all, then, even without accepting a theory of animal rights, those uses of animals cannot be morally justified.

Animal, Including, Morally, Real, Rights, Sort

If you love animals but think that veganism is extreme, then you are confused about the meaning of love.

Animal, Animals, Confused, Meaning, Thinking

Does veganism require a “sacrifice”? Yes. It requires that you give up that which you never had any right to in the first place.

Doe, Give, Giving Up, Requires, Right, Sacrifice

We should never present flesh as somehow morally distinguishable from dairy. To the extent it is morally wrong to eat flesh, it is as morally wrong - and possibly more morally wrong - to consume dairy

Distinguishable, Flesh, Global Warming, Should, Somehow

People say that being a vegan creates a social problem in that others may react negatively. But isnt that the case if you take a principled position on any issue, whether its racism, sexism, heterosexism, violence as a general matter—or speciesism? The key is to educate others about *why* you take the position.

Issue, Issues, Keys, People, Racism, Sexism

Ethical veganism represents a commitment to nonviolence.

Classism, Commitment, Ethical, Represents, Veganism

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.

Achievement, Animal, Philosophies, Philosophy, Retard, Rights

An aim of an argument should be progress, but progress ultimately means little without victory.

Aim, Argument, Mean, Progress, Victory

Being vegan is easy. Are there social pressures that encourage you to continue to eat, wear, and use animal products? Of course there are. But in a patriarchal, racist, homophobic, and ableist society, there are social pressures to participate and engage in sexism, racism, homophobia, and ableism. At some point, you have to decide who you are and what matters morally to you. And once you decide that you regard victimizing vulnerable nonhumans is not morally acceptable, it is easy to go and stay vegan

Animal, Course, Matters, Racism, What Matters

To say that a being who is sentient has no interest in continuing to live is like saying that a being with eyes has no interest in continuing to see. Death—however “humane”—is a harm for humans and nonhumans alike.

Alike, Eye, Harm, Humans, Interest, Say

I maintain that we ought to abolish the institution and stop causing or facilitating the existence of more 'companion' animals.

Abolish, Animal, Existence, Institutions, Maintain, Ought

The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.

Characteristics, Mental Illness, Proposition, Theory Of Evolution, Wholly

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.

Animal, Hope, Nonhuman, Paradigm, Shifting, Veganism

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.

Animal, Fashion, Particularly, Rockets, Value

Because animals are property, we consider as "humane treatment" that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.

Animal, Humans, Torture, Treatment

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.

Dog, Enjoy, Fighting, Morally, Nothing, Pain

If you care about animals, there is one and only one choice: go vegan. Can you choose not to be vegan? Sure. You can choose not to care.

Animal, Care, Choice, Choices, Choose

We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.

Animal, Moral, Obligations, Think, Thinking

You cannot live a nonviolent life as long as you are consuming violence. Please consider going vegan.

Life, Long, Nonviolent, Vegan, Violence

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