Not only are the philosophies of animal rights and animal welfare separated by irreconcilable differences. . . the … - Gary L. Francione

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Gary L. Francione

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.

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Domesticated animals such as dogs and cats are vulnerable and entirely dependent on us for all of their needs. They live very unnatural lives because they are not part of the human world and they are not part of the animal world.

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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.

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There is no morally coherent difference between fur and other animal clothing, such as leather, wool, etc. , just as there is no morally coherent distinction between meat and milk or eggs.

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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.

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Even if plants were sentient, veganism would still be a moral imperative given that it takes many pounds of plants to produce one pound of flesh.

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