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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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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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