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 an animal has any rights at all, it's got the right not to be eaten. — 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
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
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
...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
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
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
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
The theory of animal rights simply is not consistent with the theory of animal welfare... Animal rights means dramatic social changes for… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
I certainly believe that we have a moral obligation to care for the dogs, cats, and other nonhumans whose existence we have… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
But if there were two dogs left in the universe and it were up to us as to whether they were allowed… — 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
