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
“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
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
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 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 about nonviolence: nonviolence to other sentient beings; nonviolence to yourself; nonviolence to the earth. — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defence of these uses… — 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 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
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
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
“As discussed earlier, humans who lack the reflective self-awareness of normal adults, such as those with particular forms of amnesia or very… — 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
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
“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
“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
Animal rights without veganism is like human rights with slavery. It makes no sense. None whatsoever. — 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
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
