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A sign on the side of a dump truck in Los Angeles: It is not enough to be unashamed that we have the level of poverty that we do; we criminalize the efforts of the poor to survive by asserting property rights over garbage. '''''''''' If you are not vegan, please go vegan. It is [...]
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18 May 2012 at 6:40pm
There is no better way to celebrate Mother’s Day than by putting an end to your support of the exploitation of nonhuman mothers represented by milk, cheese, and other dairy products. A cow raised for her milk is forcefully impregnated yearly, and her babies are taken away within a few days. She is either pregnant [...]
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13 May 2012 at 7:53am
My essay, Thinking About Mitt Romney and Seamus, Michael Vick and Dog Fighting, and Eating Animals, was published on Truthout.org. You can read it here. The World is Vegan! If you want it. Gary L. Francione Professor, Rutgers University ©2012 Gary L. Francione Related posts: Commentary #3: On Michael Vick Some Further Thoughts on Michael [...]
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19 Apr 2012 at 2:03am
Certain secularists such as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the late Christopher Hitchens, often referred to as “New Atheists,” are the latest to tell us that we should look to rationality and science to figure out what to think about important moral issues. These New Atheists generally reject the notion that there can be independent [...]
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15 Apr 2012 at 5:13am
In 2007, Peter Singer, as part of a campaign to promote cage-free eggs, praised the Europeans for supposedly phasing out battery cages: “Battery cages are being phased out in Europe – why are we lagging behind?” As I noted at the time, Singer’s connecting the European effort with cage-free egg farming was misleading: [A]lthough the
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14 Jan 2012 at 12:55pm
If we are ever going to see a paradigm shift, we have to be clear about how we want the present paradigm to shift. We must be clear that veganism is the unequivocal baseline of anything that deserves to be called an “animal rights” movement. If “animal rights” means anything, it means that we cannot [...]
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9 Jan 2012 at 6:03am
British celebrity chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, promotes “happy” British Rose Veal. He’s not alone. Large animal welfare groups, such as the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and Compassion in World Farming, ever eager to make the public feel better about continuing to exploit animals, are also promoting “happy”
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8 Jan 2012 at 1:39pm
Many vegans become irritated with non-vegans who claim to care morally about animals but who continue to consume them. The former will often invoke an analogy to human slavery. It goes like this: we all agree that the use of humans exclusively as resources—the condition known as human slavery—is morally abhorrent. Similarly, if people think [...]
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4 Jan 2012 at 8:02am
I often hear from people that they feel overwhelmed by the poverty and violence of modern life. We are certainly living in difficult and challenging times. But that does not mean that we cannot make a difference. We can. Here are three suggestions to help you to celebrate peace this holiday season: First, don’t consume. [...]
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20 Dec 2011 at 5:52am
On Thursday, January 12, 2012, the Rutgers Federalist Society is sponsoring a debate between me and libertarian philosopher Tibor Machan. Machan holds the R. C. Hoiles Chair of Business Ethics and Free Enterprise at the Argyros School of Business & Economics at Chapman University in Orange, California. He is a research fellow at the Hoover [...]
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4 Dec 2011 at 9:07pm
The basis of the animal welfare movement, stretching from its inception in the 19th century until the present day, is that animal use is itself acceptable because animals do not have an interest in continuing to live. According to welfarists, nonhuman animals are not self-aware and cognitively sophisticated in the way that humans are. This [...]
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21 Nov 2011 at 9:06pm
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, [...]
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2 Oct 2011 at 9:44am
We frequently see news stories reporting that scientists have determined that nonhuman animals have certain cognitive characteristics that we associate with human intelligence. The implication of this is that if nonhuman animals have humanlike intelligence, then they have greater moral value; the “smarter” they are, in human terms, the more
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2 Oct 2011 at 7:48am
On July 7, 2011, the Humane Society of the United States and United Egg Producers announced that they would “work together to seek a federal law that would require larger cages and other improved conditions for the nation's 280 million laying hens.” The proposed legislation, if passed, will be phased in over the next 18 [...]
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12 Jul 2011 at 7:16am
Dear Colleagues: Animal Care and Control of New York City, which has operated New York’s municipal animal shelter system since 1995, is an institution plagued with problems. There are shocking allegations of animal abuse and neglect, including a recent report that ACC killed eight puppies who would have been taken and placed by rescue groups.
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