{"author":"Gary L. Francione","author_id":"Gary+L.+Francione","total_quotes":26,"quotes":[{"text":"Every time you drink a glass of milk or eat a piece of cheese, you harm a mother. Please go vegan.","author":"Gary L. Francione","tags":["abolitionist","animal-products","dairy","exploitation","francione","milk","mother","nonviolence","slavery","veganism"],"id":7965,"author_id":"Gary+L.+Francione"},{"text":"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.","author":"Gary L. Francione","tags":["community","racism","moral "],"id":15044,"author_id":"Gary+L.+Francione"},{"text":"Veganism is an act of nonviolent defiance. It is our statement that we reject the notion that animals are things and that we regard sentient nonhumans as moral persons with the fundamental moral right not to be treated as the property or resources of humans.","author":"Gary L. Francione","tags":["abolition","abolitionist","ahimsa","animals","education","exploitation","francione","inspirational","justice","life","nonviolence","nonviolence-jainism","peace-making","peace-movement","peace-on-earth","rights","sentience","slavery","veganism","wisdom"],"id":16314,"author_id":"Gary+L.+Francione"},{"text":"Veganism is about nonviolence. It is about not engaging in harm to other sentient beings; to oneself; and to the environment upon which all beings depend for life. In my view, the animal rights movement is, at its core, a movement about ending violence to all sentient beings. It is a movement that seeks fundamental justice for all. It is an emerging peace movement that does not stop at the arbitrary line that separates humans from nonhumans.","author":"Gary L. Francione","tags":["abolition","abolitionist","ahimsa","animals","exploitation","inspirational","justice","movement","nonviolence","peace","peace-movement","rights","veganism"],"id":34521,"author_id":"Gary+L.+Francione"},{"text":"We should not be surprised that more and more people feel comfortable about consuming animal products. After all, they are being assured by the “experts” that suffering is being decreased and they can buy “happy” meat, “free-range” eggs, etc.. These products even come with labels approved of by animal organizations. The animal welfare movement is actually encouraging the “compassionate” consumption of animal products.Animal welfare reforms do very little to increase the protection given to animal interests because of the economics involved: animals are property. They are things that have no intrinsic or moral value. This means that welfare standards, whether for animals used as foods, in experiments, or for any other purpose, will be low and linked to the level of welfare needed to exploit the animal in an economically efficient way for the particular purpose. Put simply, we generally protect animal interests only to the extent we get an economic benefit from doing so. The concept of “unnecessary” suffering is understood as that level of suffering that will frustrate the particular use. And that can be a great deal of suffering.Killing Animals and Making Animals Suffer | Animal Rights: The Abolitionist Approach.","author":"Gary L. Francione","tags":["ahimsa","animal-products","animal-use","animals","diet","francione","humane","killing","nonhumans","nonviolence","peace","peace-loving","peaceful","veganism","welfare"],"id":65941,"author_id":"Gary+L.+Francione"},{"text":"In order to be a teacher you've got to be a student first.","author":"Gary L. Francione","tags":["animal-rights","education","learn","reality","teach","teacher","vegan"],"id":132515,"author_id":"Gary+L.+Francione"},{"text":"People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices.","author":"Gary L. Francione","tags":["animal-rights","communication","companies","companion-animals","delusion","education","happy-meat","marketing","morality","vegan"],"id":136606,"author_id":"Gary+L.+Francione"},{"text":"I reject animal welfare reform and single-issue campaigns because they are not only inconsistent with the claims of justice that we should be making if we really believe that animal exploitation is wrong, but because these approaches cannot work as a practical matter. Animals are property and it costs money to protect their interests; therefore, the level of protection accorded to animal interests will always be low and animals will, under the best of circumstances, still be treated in ways that would constitute torture if applied to humans.By endorsing welfare reforms that supposedly make exploitation more “compassionate” or single-issue campaigns that falsely suggest that there is a coherent moral distinction between meat and dairy or between fur and wool or between steak and foie gras, we betray the principle of justice that says that all sentient beings are equal for purposes of not being used exclusively as human resources. And, on a practical level, we do nothing more than make people feel better about animal exploitation.","author":"Gary L. Francione","tags":["abolition","abolitionist","ahimsa","animals","education","exploitation","francione","inspirational","justice","life","nonviolence","nonviolence-jainism","peace-making","peace-movement","peace-on-earth","rights","sentience","slavery","veganism","wisdom"],"id":142236,"author_id":"Gary+L.+Francione"},{"text":"We proclaim human intelligence to be morally valuable per se because we are human. If we were birds, we would proclaim the ability to fly as morally valuable per se. If we were fish, we would proclaim the ability to live underwater as morally valuable per se. But apart from our obviously self-interested proclamations, there is nothing morally valuable per se about human intelligence.","author":"Gary L. Francione","tags":["behaviour","birds","fish","humans","intelligence","morally-valuable","species"],"id":159503,"author_id":"Gary+L.+Francione"},{"text":"You cannot live a nonviolent life as long as you are consuming violence. Please consider going vegan.","author":"Gary L. Francione","tags":["abolition","abolitionist","ahimsa","animals","education","exploitation","francione","inspirational","justice","life","nonviolence","nonviolence-jainism","peace-making","peace-movement","peace-on-earth","rights","sentience","slavery","veganism","vulnerable","wisdom"],"id":165557,"author_id":"Gary+L.+Francione"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":26,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}