“Now I understand why people say you’re divisive”
Gary Francione retells an amusing, thoughtful conversation about veganism that took place while waiting for a train.
Gary Francione retells an amusing, thoughtful conversation about veganism that took place while waiting for a train.
For anyone who wants to give up dairy but hasn’t yet been able to do it, here’s some practical advice from Lee Hall. This one starts with what must be one of my favorite quotes from her, “We can’t really leave our morals to the legislature, or to corporations.”
Gary Francione is Board of Governors Professor of Law and Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Scholar of Law and Philosophy at Rutgers University School of Law-Newark. Find out more about his work at The Abolitionist Approach or by checking out his most recent book, Eat Like You Care.
Lee Hall writes about animal rights for CounterPunch. You can check out her site Vegan Place. Her most recent book is Dining with Friends: The Art of North American Vegan Cuisine.
Peter Singer, Lee Hall, Richard Epstein, Steve Wise, Jarrod Bailey, Sarah Baeckler, Katherine Meyer, Pat Dingle and Gary Francione recommend one thing to improve the lives of animals.
“There’s no comparison. Veganism is the single most important thing that one can do today.”
“Whatever else you’re doing, if you’re not a vegan, I don’t understand what you’re doing. I don’t understand why you care. If you’re eating them, if you’re wearing them, what do you care? Why do you care?”
“[T]he simplest thing really, is to stop eating them because it’s in the food industry that the greatest amount of abuse of animals occurs. In the United States alone, 10 billion animals get killed for food each year. It’s vast. It dwarfs all of the other forms of abuse of animals.”
“If you want to help animals in a general way, you have to stop eating them. That’s the number one thing you can do, and it will also help global warming, by the way.”
“It’s very difficult to find anyone who would disagree with the proposition that it’s wrong to inflict unnecessary suffering on animals. Now, what do we mean when we say ‘necessary’?” Gary Francione