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
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
Every sentient being values her/his life even if no one else does. That is what is meant by saying that the lives… — 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
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 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
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
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
None of that is necessary. It's not as if we're in a situation where it is us or them.There's something peculiar about… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
