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.
Roger Fouts tells the tale of being conned by Washoe, a chimpanzee in his 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.
Gloria Grow is the founder of Fauna Foundation, a non-profit chimpanzee sanctuary in Québec, Canada.
Roger Fouts, Ph.D is the Co-Founder of the Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute where he served as Co-Director (with his wife Deborah) and was Professor of Psychology at Central Washington University before retiring in 2011. Roger is best known for teaching sign language to Washoe, who is the first chimpanzee to ever learn sign language. He is the author of Next of Kin: My Conversations with Chimpanzees.
“As a movement, your means should be your ends.”
Lee Hall
Steve Wise, Gary Francione and Peter Singer explain the connections between animals, slavery and the law.
“Lord Mansfield…set up a series of trial dates for them to decide whether Charles Steuart had the right to sell [James Somerset], or whether James Somerset had the right not to be sold. In one of the most famous trials…Lord Mansfield…issued his opinion that slavery was so odious that the common law would not support it.”
Steve Wise
“If you have a chimpanzee, you bought it, you legally own it, you don’t want it anymore, there’s really nothing to stop you killing it. So, in that sense they really are like slaves.”
Peter Singer
“When society was in a position to accept the idea that slavery was morally wrong and ought to be legally wrong, then the law began to shift.”
Steve Wise
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