Gary L. Francione Quotes

In order to be a teacher you’ve got to be a student first

…eating animals involves an intentional decision to participate in the suffering and death of nonhumans where there is no plausible moral justification.

They are nonhuman persons. They are not food. If animals matter morally at all, there is one and only one rational response: go vegan. Everything else is just participation in animal exploitation.

Does veganism require a sacrifice? Yes. It requires that you give up that which you never had any right to in the first place.

99% of our uses of animals, including our numerically most significant use of them for food, do not involve any sort of necessity or any real conflict between human and nonhuman interests. If animals matter morally at all, then, even without accepting a theory of animal rights, those uses of animals cannot be morally justified.

There is no difference between sitting around the pit watching dogs fight and sitting around a summer barbecue roasting the corpses of tortured animals or enjoying the dairy or eggs from tortured animals.

It costs us so little to go vegan. It costs animals so much if we don’t.

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.

Veganism is about nonviolence: nonviolence to other sentient beings; nonviolence to yourself; nonviolence to the earth.

The idea that we have the right to inflict suffering and death on other sentient beings for the trivial reasons of palate pleasure and fashion is, without doubt, one of the most arrogant and morally repugnant notions in the history of human thought.

There is nothing more ‘elitist’ than thinking our palate pleasure can ever justify a second of suffering or a single death. Please go vegan.

If you think that being vegan is difficult, imagine how difficult it is for animals that you are not vegan.