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Mission Statement The mission of this website is to provide a clear statement of an approach to animal rights that (1) requires the abolition of animal exploitation and rejects the regulation of animal exploitation; (2) is based only on animal sentience and no other cognitive characteristic, (3) regards veganism as the moral baseline of the […]
Gary L. Francione Temple University Press, 1996 Purchase: DealOz Books Are “animal welfare” supporters indistinguishable from the animal exploiters they oppose? Do reformist measures reaffirm the underlying principles that make animal exploitation possible in the first place? In this provocative book, Gary L. Francione argues that the modern animal rights movement has become indistinguishable from […]
Gary L. Francione Temple University Press, 2000 Purchase: DealOz Books Two-thirds of Americans polled by the Associated Press agree with the following statement: An animal’s right to live free of suffering should be just as important as a person’s right to live free of suffering. More than 50 percent of Americans believe that it is […]
Why Veganism Matters: The Moral Value of Animals Gary L. Francione Purchase: Amazon.com (paperback) | Amazon.com (ebook) | Columbia University Press Most people care about animals, but only a tiny fraction are vegan. The rest often think of veganism as an extreme position. They certainly do not believe that they have a moral obligation to […]
Jainism, Animal Rights, and Veganism Prof. Gary L. Francione gives the Fourth Mahavir Nirvan Lecture on Applied Jain Ethics at Florida International University, October 24, 2016: “Jainism, Animal Rights, and Veganism” Prof. Francione is introduced at 21:45 in the video. International Jain Bioethics Conference 2012 Professor Gary L. Francione on Jainism and Vivisection International Jain […]
Last week, I received an email from a person whom I will identify, with her permission, only as Johanna. Johanna wrote, in part: You argue that we ought to put all our time and energy in trying to persuade people to become vegans. I think that is a wonderful idea but what about all of […]
In last week’s blog entry, I mentioned that The Vegan Society had interviewed Peter Singer, Tom Regan, and me in its magazine, The Vegan. In his interview, Singer states: [T]o avoid inflicting suffering on animals—not to mention the environmental costs of intensive animal production—we need to cut down drastically on the animal products we consume. […]
The Sunday Times (UK), November 26, 2006, reports that in a BBC documentary, Peter Singer, described by The Times as “father of the modern animal rights movement” meets with Tipu Aziz, an Oxford vivisector who uses primates in his research on Parkinson’s disease. Aziz informs Singer that he induces parkinsonism in primates and claims that […]
Number of animals killed in the world by the meat, dairy and egg industries, since you opened this webpage. This does not include the billions of fish and other aquatic animals killed annually.
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