We cannot talk simultaneously about animal rights and the 'humane' slaughter of animals. — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
Animal rights without veganism is like human rights with slavery. It makes no sense. None whatsoever. — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
If you claim to 'love' animals but you eat animal products, you need to think critically about how you understand love. — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
It costs us so little to go vegan. It costs animals so much if we don't. — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
If you think that being vegan is difficult, imagine how difficult it is for animals that you are not vegan. — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
If an animal has any rights at all, it's got the right not to be eaten. — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
I maintain that we ought to abolish the institution and stop causing or facilitating the existence of more 'companion' animals. — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
There is no 'need' for us to eat meat, dairy or eggs. Indeed, these foods are increasingly linked to various human diseases… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
Veganism is the application of the principle of abolition in your own life; it represents your recognition that animals are not things.… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
Veganism must be the baseline if we are to have any hope of shifting the paradigm away from animals as things and… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
There is no moral distinction between fur and other materials made from animals, such as leather, which also is the result of… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
There is no difference between sitting around the pit watching dogs fight and sitting around a summer barbecue roasting the corpses of… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
If you care about animals, there is one and only one choice: go vegan. Can you choose not to be vegan? Sure.… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
We should take good care of the domestic animals we have brought into existence until they die. We should stop bringing more… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
99% of our uses of animals, including our numerically most significant use of them for food, do not involve any sort of… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
There is no meaningful distinction between eating flesh and eating dairy or other animal products. Animals exploited in the dairy industry live… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
The most important form of incremental change is the decision by the individual to become vegan. Veganism, or the eschewing of all… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
We need to reshape the movement as one of grassroots activists, and not 'professional activists' who populate the seemingly endless number of… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
It's really not rocket science. If animals are not mere things; if they have moral value, we cannot justify eating, wearing, or… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
Michael Vick may enjoy watching dogs fight. Someone else may find that repulsive but see nothing wrong with eating an animal who… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
We can no more justify using nonhumans as human resources than we can justify human slavery. Animal use and slavery have at… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
Not only are the philosophies of animal rights and animal welfare separated by irreconcilable differences... the enactment of animal welfare measures actually… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
“As I discuss in Introduction to Animal Rights: Your Child or the Dog?, we may, in the lifeboat or burning-house situation, decide… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
Being vegan is easy. Are there social pressures that encourage you to continue to eat, wear, and use animal products? Of course… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
“If you are a feminist and are not a vegan, you are ignoring the exploitation of female nonhumans and the commodification of… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
I find it very annoying that so many animal advocates talk about the difficulty of being vegan. Many animal advocates are inclined… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
“Animals are property. There are laws that supposedly protect animal interests in being treated “humanely,” but that term is interpreted in large… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
“We should not be surprised that more and more people feel comfortable about consuming animal products. After all, they are being assured… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
“I reject animal welfare reform and single-issue campaigns because they are not only inconsistent with the claims of justice that we should… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
If you love animals but think that veganism is extreme, then you are confused about the meaning of love. — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
You don't have to love animals to recognize that it is immoral and unjust to exploit them. But if you do love… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
Being vegan is not just a matter of being 'kind' to animals. First and foremost, it is a matter of being just… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
Most of the time, those who use animals in experiments justify that use by pointing to alleged benefits to human and animal… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
Domesticated animals such as dogs and cats are vulnerable and entirely dependent on us for all of their needs. They live very… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
We eat animals because they taste good. And if that's O.K., what's wrong with wearing fur? We need as a society to… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
Because animals are property, we consider as "humane treatment" that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans. — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
“If you really care about animals, then stop trying to figure out how to exploit them 'compassionately'. Just stop exploiting them.” — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
Being vegan provides us with the peace of knowing that we are no longer participants in the hideous violence that is animal… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
Animal rights without veganism is like human rights with slavery. It makes no sense. None whatsoever. — Gary L. Francione Copy Share
Humans treat animals as things that exist as means to human ends. That's morally wrong. Sexism promotes the idea that women are things that… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share
“The notion that animals are not self-aware is based on nothing more than a stipulation that the only way to be self-aware is to… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share
There is no morally coherent difference between fur and other animal clothing, such as leather, wool, etc., just as there is no morally coherent… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share
We cannot talk simultaneously about animal rights and the 'humane' slaughter of animals. — Gary L. Francione Copy Share
We can no more justify using nonhumans as human resources than we can justify human slavery. Animal use and slavery have at least one… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share
Because animals are property, we consider as "humane treatment" that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans. — Gary L. Francione Copy Share
Not only are the philosophies of animal rights and animal welfare separated by irreconcilable differences... the enactment of animal welfare measures actually impedes the… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share
There is increasing social concern about our use of nonhumans for experiments, food, clothing and entertainment. This concern about animals reflects both our own… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share
Being vegan is easy. Are there social pressures that encourage you to continue to eat, wear, and use animal products? Of course there are.… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share
“Sentience is a means to the end of continued existence. Sentient beings, by virtue of their being sentient, have an interest in remaining alive;… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share
It costs us so little to go vegan. It costs animals so much if we don't. — Gary L. Francione Copy Share
We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defence of these uses is our… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share
But if there were two dogs left in the universe and it were up to us as to whether they were allowed to breed… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share
