“There is nothing so likely to evoke a sudden passionate concern for plants than a proposal that someone not eat animal products or a desire to return to eating them. Nothing.” – Gary Francione The following is an excerpt from Gary Francione’s essay, “Nothing to Do with Science.” First, no one doubts that plants are [...]
The following is from the FAQ section of The Abolitionist Approach by Gary Francione. Question : By equating speciesism with racism and sexism, don’t you equate animals, people of color, and women? Answer: No. Racism, sexism, speciesism, and other forms of discrimination are all analogous in that all share the faulty notion that some morally [...]
The following is an excerpt from Vegan Freak: Being Vegan in a Non-Vegan World by Bob Torres and Jenna Torres In his book Introduction to Animal Rights: Your Child or the Dog, Gary Francione proposes a stunning hypothetical that illustrates the problems with the way we view animals in our culture. To take Francione’s hypothetical, [...]
Katrina Fox has written an interesting piece in this month’s Scavenger, in which she presents a debate currently occurring in AR/Feminist circles on whether it’s racist and elitist to advocate for veganism because doing so does not “honor” various cultural “traditions” of killing and and using animals. As I see it, defending animal exploitation on [...]
The Boston Vegan Association has come out with a new ad campaign that empowers readers while simultaneously holding them accountable. From the BVA‘s press release: Concern for the lives of animals used for food, clothing, and entertainment is increasing, and many people want to do something to help. Most animal welfare groups and authorities promote [...]
The following is an excerpt from Gary Francione’s remarks on his book, Animals As Persons, from Rorotoko. “Our moral thinking about animals is confused to the point of being delusional. We say that we regard as morally wrong the imposition of “unnecessary” suffering and death on animals. Whatever the finer points about the meaning of [...]
The following is a Philadelphia Daily News op-ed by Gary Francione which originally ran on Aug. 22, 2007: MICHAEL VICK has, according to his lawyer, agreed to plead guilty to federal dogfighting charges against him. Over past weeks, there’s been an enormous amount of coverage of the dog-fighting operation sponsored by Atlanta Falcons quarterback Vick, [...]
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“Speciesism and human slavery are similar in that in all cases animals and enslaved humans have a basic interest in not being treated as things and yet are treated as things on the basis of morally irrelevant criteria. To deny animals this basic right simply because they are animals is like saying that we should [...]