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
There is nothing more 'elitist' than thinking our palate pleasure can ever justify a second of suffering or a single death. Please… — 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
It costs us so little to go vegan. It costs animals so much if we don't. — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
Veganism is not a limitation in any way; it's an expansion of your love, your commitment to nonviolence, and your belief in… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
Veganism is about nonviolence: nonviolence to other sentient beings; nonviolence to yourself; nonviolence to the earth. — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
Does veganism require a “sacrifice”? Yes. It requires that you give up that which you never had any right to in the… — 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
Even if plants were sentient, veganism would still be a moral imperative given that it takes many pounds of plants to produce… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
Veganism is not about giving anything up or losing anything; it is about gaining the peace within yourself that comes from embracing… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
...eating animals involves an intentional decision to participate in the suffering and death of nonhumans where there is no plausible moral justification. — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
They are nonhuman persons. They are not food. If animals matter morally at all, there is one and only one rational response:… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
If we can live and prosper without killing, why would we not do so? I do not see veganism as 'extreme' in… — 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
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
We are vegans not simply because being vegan will reduce suffering. We are vegan because every sentient being values her or his… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
There is increasing social concern about our use of nonhumans for experiments, food, clothing and entertainment. This concern about animals reflects both… — 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
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
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
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
Ethical veganism results in a profound revolution within the individual; a complete rejection of the paradigm of oppression and violence that she… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
People say that being a vegan creates a social problem in that others may react negatively. But isnt that the case if… — 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
Vegetarianism as a moral position is no more coherent than saying that you think it morally wrong to eat meat from a… — 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
If you are not vegan, please consider going vegan. It’s a matter of nonviolence. Being vegan is your statement that you reject… — 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
