Gary L. Francione Quotes

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• The idea that we have the right to inflict suffering and death on other sentient beings for the trivial reasons of palate pleasure and fashion is, without doubt, one of the most arrogant and morally repugnant notions in the history of human thought.

  Gary L. Francione

  Death, Fashion, Ideas

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• Veganism is an act of nonviolent defiance. It is our statement that we reject the notion that animals are things and that we regard sentient nonhumans as moral persons with the fundamental moral right not to be treated as the property or resources of humans.

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  Animal, Fundamentals, Moral

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• 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

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  Giving, Losing, Vegetarian

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

  Gary L. Francione

  Long, Violence, Vegan

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• All sentient beings should have at least one right—the right not to be treated as property

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  Compassion, Should Have, Treated

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• 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

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  Animal, What Matters, Racism

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• If we can live and prosper without killing, why would we not do so? I do not see veganism as 'extreme' in any way. I see killing for no reason as extreme in every way.

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  Way, Killing, Reason

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

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  Confused, Animal, Thinking

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• Veganism is not a limitation in any way; it's an expansion of your love, your commitment to nonviolence, and your belief in justice for all.

  Gary L. Francione

  Love You, Commitment, Justice For All

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• There is nothing more 'elitist' than thinking our palate
  pleasure can ever justify a second of suffering or
  a single death. Please go vegan.

  Gary L. Francione

  Thinking, Suffering, Vegan

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• 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

  Doe, Inherent, Ifs

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• Veganism is about nonviolence. It is about not engaging in harm to other sentient beings; to oneself; and to the environment upon which all beings depend for life. In my view, the animal rights movement is, at its core, a movement about ending violence to all sentient beings. It is a movement that seeks fundamental justice for all. It is an emerging peace movement that does not stop at the arbitrary line that separates humans from nonhumans.

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  Peace, Animal, Rights

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• If you think that being vegan is difficult, imagine how difficult it is for animals that you are not vegan.

  Gary L. Francione

  Animal, Thinking, Vegan

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• 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

  Dog, Pain, Fighting

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• Being vegan provides us with the peace of knowing that we are no longer participants in the hideous violence that is animal exploitation.

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  Animal, Knowing, Violence

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• 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.

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  Purpose, Use, Resources

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• Who I've been is not as important as who I'm becoming.

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  Growth, Important, Becoming

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• Every time you drink a glass of milk or eat a piece of cheese, you harm a mother. Please go vegan.

  Gary L. Francione

  Mother, Glasses, Pieces

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

  Gary L. Francione

  Animal, Treatment, Torture

  Gary L. Francione (2009). “Animals as Persons: Essays on the Abolition of Animal Exploitation”, p.69, Columbia University Press

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• Being vegan is not a matter of "lifestyle." It is a matter of fundamental moral obligation. Is being vegan a matter of "choice"? Only insofar as we are able to choose to ignore our moral obligations not to exploit the vulnerable.

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  Choices, Fundamentals, Matter

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• 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.

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  Mean, Animal, Rights

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• Welfare reforms and the whole “happy” exploitation movement are not “baby steps.” They are big steps–in a seriously backward direction.

  Gary L. Francione

  Baby, Peace, Reform

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• We should take good care of the domestic animals we have brought into existence until they die. We should stop bringing more domestic animals into existence.

  Gary L. Francione

  Animal, Care, Should

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• 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.

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  Feel Better, Animal, Agriculture

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

  Gary L. Francione

  Theory Of Evolution, Mental Illness, Characteristics

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