Veganism is the application of the principle of abolition in your own life; it represents your recognition that animals are not things. Veganism is the recognition of the moral personhood of nonhuman animals. — 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 animal products, is more than a matter of diet or lifestyle; it is a political and moral statement… — 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
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
We cannot talk simultaneously about animal rights and the 'humane' slaughter of animals. — 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 least one… — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
It costs us so little to go vegan. It costs animals so much if we don't. — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
