Gary Lawrence Francione Quotes

• You cannot live a nonviolent life as long as you are consuming violence. Please consider going vegan.

  Gary Lawrence Francione

  Topics in Wisdom

• We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.

  Gary Lawrence Francione

  Topics in Inspirational, Wisdom

  Tags in Animals, Entertainment, Purposes

• Michael Vick may enjoy watching dogs fight. Someone else may find that repulsive but see nothing wrong with eating an animal who has had a life as full of pain and suffering as the lives of the fighting dogs. It’s strange that we regard the latter as morally different from, and superior to, the former.

  Gary Lawrence Francione

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Player, Enjoying, Animals, Fight

• Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.

  Gary Lawrence Francione

  Topics in Racism

  Tags in Ourselves, Reject, Human, Community

• The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.

  Gary Lawrence Francione

  Topics in Evolution

  Tags in Humans, Theory

• Because animals are property, we consider as “humane treatment” that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.

  Gary Lawrence Francione

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Animals, Treatment

• There is no moral distinction between fur and other materials made from animals, such as leather, which also is the result of the suffering and death of sentient beings.

  Gary Lawrence Francione

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Animals, Importance

• There is no ‘need’ for us to eat meat, dairy or eggs. Indeed, these foods are increasingly linked to various human diseases and animal agriculture is an environmental disaster for the planet.

  Gary Lawrence Francione

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Animal, Agriculture, Environmental, Disaster

• We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.

  Gary Lawrence Francione

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Animals, Moral, Obligations

• We eat animals because they taste good. And if that’s O.K., what’s wrong with wearing fur? We need as a society to think seriously about our institutionalized animal use.

  Gary Lawrence Francione

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Animals, Institution

Gary Lawrence Francione (10)

Birth:	29th May, 1954
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Educator

About

Gary Lawrence Francione  is the Distinguished Professor of Law and Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Scholar of Law & Philosophy at Rutgers School of Law–Newark. Francione is known for his work on animal rights theory, and was the first academic to teach it in an American law school. His work has focused on three issues: the property status of animals, the differences between animal rights and animal welfare, and a theory of animal rights based on sentience alone, rather than on any other cognitive characteristics.

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