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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

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Gary L. Francione
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: May 24
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New York
United States
Gary Lawrence Francione
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We cannot talk simultaneously about animal rights and the 'humane' slaughter of animals.
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But if there were two dogs left in the universe and it were up to us as to whether they were allowed to breed so that we could continue to live with dogs, and even if we could guarantee that all dogs would have homes as loving as the one that we provide, we would not hesitate for a second to bring the whole institution of 'pet' ownership to an end.
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...eating animals involves an intentional decision to participate in the suffering and death of nonhumans where there is no plausible moral justification.
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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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If you claim to 'love' animals but you eat animal products, you need to think critically about how you understand love.
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Forty-two years after Dr. King was murdered, we are still a nation of inequality. People of color, women, gays, lesbians, and others are still treated as second-class citizens. Yes, things have changed but we have still not achieved equality among all humans. And nonhuman animals continue to be chattel property without any inherent value.
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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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It costs us so little to go vegan. It costs animals so much if we don't.
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Does veganism require a “sacrifice”? Yes. It requires that you give up that which you never had any right to in the first place.
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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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The distinction between meat and other animal products is total nonsense. Vegetarianism is a morally incoherent position. If you regard animals as members of the moral community, you really don’t have a choice but to go vegan.
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The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.
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Any serious social, political, and economic change must include veganism.
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People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices
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We are vegans not simply because being vegan will reduce suffering. We are vegan because every sentient being values her or his life even if no one else does. We are vegan because justice minimally requires that we not take life for trivial purposes.
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They are nonhuman persons. They are not food. If animals matter morally at all, there is one and only one rational response: go vegan. Everything else is just participation in animal exploitation.
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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.
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An aim of an argument should be progress, but progress ultimately means little without victory.
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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.
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I certainly believe that we have a moral obligation to care for the dogs, cats, and other nonhumans whose existence we have caused or facilitated as part of the institution of 'pet' ownership. But I maintain that we ought to abolish the institution and stop causing or facilitating the existence of more 'companion' animals.
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