Gary L. Francione quote: "Most of the time, those who use animals in experiments justify that use by pointing to alleged benefits to human and animal health and the supposed necessity of using animals to obtain those benefits."

Michael Vick may enjoy watching dogs fight. Someone else may find that repulsive but see nothing wro...
GARY L. FRANCIONE

We eat animals because they taste good. And if that's O.K., what's wrong with wearing fur? W...
GARY L. FRANCIONE

The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent ...
GARY L. FRANCIONE

There is increasing social concern about our use of nonhumans for experiments, food, clothing and en...
GARY L. FRANCIONE

We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.
GARY L. FRANCIONE

We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only...
GARY L. FRANCIONE

Because animals are property, we consider as 'humane treatment' that we would regard as tort...
GARY L. FRANCIONE

There is no moral distinction between fur and other materials made from animals, such as leather, wh...
GARY L. FRANCIONE

There is no 'need' for us to eat meat, dairy or eggs. Indeed, these foods are increasingly l...
GARY L. FRANCIONE

Ethical veganism results in a profound revolution within the individual; a complete rejection of the...
GARY L. FRANCIONE

Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a s...
GARY L. FRANCIONE

All sentient beings should have at least one right—the right not to be treated as property
GARY L. FRANCIONE

People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices
GARY L. FRANCIONE

Being vegan is easy. Are there social pressures that encourage you to continue to eat, wear, and use...
GARY L. FRANCIONE

We should not be surprised that more and more people feel comfortable about consuming animal product...
GARY L. FRANCIONE

The rights paradigm, which, as I interpret it, morally requires the abolition of animal exploitation...
GARY L. FRANCIONE

Welfare reforms and the whole “happy” exploitation movement are not “baby steps.” They are b...
GARY L. FRANCIONE

Animals are property. There are laws that supposedly protect animal interests
in being treated ...
GARY L. FRANCIONE

I reject animal welfare reform and single-issue campaigns because they are not only inconsistent wit...
GARY L. FRANCIONE

To say that a being who is sentient has no interest in continuing to live is like saying that a bein...
GARY L. FRANCIONE

Ethical veganism represents a commitment to nonviolence.
GARY L. FRANCIONE

Veganism is an act of nonviolent defiance. It is our statement that we reject the notion that animal...
GARY L. FRANCIONE

We can no more justify using nonhumans as human resources than we can justify human slavery. Animal ...
GARY L. FRANCIONE

If you are not vegan, please consider going vegan. It’s a matter of nonviolence. Being vegan is yo...
GARY L. FRANCIONE

Veganism is not a "sacrifice." It is a joy.
GARY L. FRANCIONE

Veganism is not about giving anything up or losing anything; it is about gaining the peace within yo...
GARY L. FRANCIONE

We should never present flesh as somehow morally distinguishable from dairy. To the extent it is mor...
GARY L. FRANCIONE

If we are ever going to see a paradigm shift, we have to be clear about how we want the present para...
GARY L. FRANCIONE

So it is always preferable to discuss the matter of veganism in a non-judgemental way. Remember that...
GARY L. FRANCIONE

The notion that we should promote “happy” or “humane” exploitation as “baby steps” ignor...
GARY L. FRANCIONE

I am opposed to animal welfare campaigns for two reasons. First, if animal use cannot be morally jus...
GARY L. FRANCIONE

Any serious social, political, and economic change must include veganism.
GARY L. FRANCIONE

We should always be clear that animal exploitation is wrong because it involves speciesism. And spec...
GARY L. FRANCIONE

Veganism is about nonviolence. It is about not engaging in harm to other sentient beings; to oneself...
GARY L. FRANCIONE

In order to be a teacher you've got to be a student first
GARY L. FRANCIONE

I have argued that this sort of thinking is problematic in at least two regards:

First, t...
GARY L. FRANCIONE

One of the main arguments that I make is that although almost everyone accepts that it is morally wr...
GARY L. FRANCIONE

We proclaim human intelligence to be morally valuable per se because we are human. If we were birds,...
GARY L. FRANCIONE

When it comes to animal agriculture, there is conventional, which is really hideous, and "compassion...
GARY L. FRANCIONE

An abolitionist is, as I have developed that notion, one who (1) maintains that we cannot justify an...
GARY L. FRANCIONE

There are some animal advocates who say that to maintain that veganism is the moral baseline is obje...
GARY L. FRANCIONE

If we take the position that an assessment that veganism is morally preferable to vegetarianism is n...
GARY L. FRANCIONE

You cannot live a nonviolent life as long as you are consuming violence. Please consider going vegan...
GARY L. FRANCIONE

When we say that humans have a “right” not to be used for these purposes, this means simply that...
GARY L. FRANCIONE

We cannot justify treating any sentient nonhuman as our property, as a resource, as a thing that we ...
GARY L. FRANCIONE

Losing your mind is just like ruining a flower just have to keep plucking at their petals
L

Manipulation and pretentiousness, the dead can't do that.
L

Your cynical ways define your soul as you treat the people who love you with nothing more than utter...
L

Having many friends doesn't guarantee that you might still feel lonely
L

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
L. L. NASH

Parents send their children to college either because they went to college, or because they didn't.
L. L. HENDREN

Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.
L. L. HENDERSON

Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or they didn't.
L. L. HENDREN

Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know.
L. CARTE

They make much of our drinking, but never think of our thirst.
L. SCHEFER

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.
L. ESTRANGE

The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the m...
L. SCHEFER

It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything ...
L. ESTRANGE

Place your attention 6 inches above your crown. God is breathing in and out there.
L HILL

Dreams are stages where lies and truths intertwine in and endless dance. It is in the waking world t...
L. FILLOON

Continuing a short series on authenticity: "Prayer in the Name of Christ", though it is essentia...
L. SWETENHAM

Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know.
L. CARTE

Do not dig up the tree to examine his roots.
L BERTSCH

Some read books only with a view to find fault, while others read only to be taught; the former are ...
L. ESTRANGE

We are all related because our DNA is the same with our very first mother (Eve).
METTRIE L.

Undesirable behaviors can be changed positively by using behavior modification.
METTRIE L.

Love conquers everything even karma.
METTRIE L.

Life is full of endless possibilities.
METTRIE L.

The true purpose of pain in one's life is to grow strong--in faith, spirit, and emotions.
METTRIE L.

Everyone wants to be wanted and if all people wait for someone else to invest in them, the world wil...
LAURA L.

You’re the purest, most genuine thing that ever happened to me.- Caleb
L. DUARTE

You can’t just bring a regular human here! What if the girl runs and tells the whole world on that...
L. TAYLOR

I’m not good with these types of girls, I had thought as Avena lay there in the middle of the bed,...
L. JAYNE

I think that the play is doing good work. And the volunteers, not only the audience, have grown from...
BOB L.

That's our policy. We're not looking for fame. Our aim here is to carry a message.
BOB L.

We get standing ovations wherever we go. If this didn't work, I would have quit long ago.
BOB L.

Everyone is born with psychic abilities. It's just a matter of knowing how to tap into it.
METTRIE L.

Everyone has psychic abilities. It's just a matter of tapping into it.
METTRIE L.

There is a special bond between twin soul mates--unconditional love, respect for each other, bringin...
METTRIE L.

It's no coincidence that every person have more than 1 soulmates.
METTRIE L.

In the beginning, there was silence.
L. PENELOPE

Parce qu'il y a certaines habitudes qui deviennent vitales. Aussi futiles soient elles, elles devien...
CAMILLE L.

Mais ça veut dire quoi d'abord "mon livre", ton livre ? Que tu l'as acheté ? Qu'on te l'a donné ?...
MéLISSANDRE L.

I wasn’t brave, or strong, or badass. And all those quirky lines I fed you? A foolish attempt at s...
L. DUARTE

I was his as if I had been born for that very purpose, as if my body were a puppet, and he was the p...
L. DUARTE

Dreaming is good. But working to make those dreams come true is even better.
JOEL L.

We were skin to skin.
Mouth over mouth.
Mingled breaths.
Tangled bodies.
Heartbe...
L. DUARTE

Film allows you to see life differently, or see life you've never experienced, ... When it does that...
L. SPARKS

The fair has worked hard to provide a family atmosphere over the past 10 years, ... We encourage eve...
L. SPARKS

The addition of Beanstalk to the Omnicom network will further expand the services that we offer clie...
L. HARRISON

It would have been easy simply to take another job somewhere else. But that wasn't Bernie Marcus. He...
L. HARRISON

What enables one person to launch a business at fifty when other people, faced with being laid off, ...
L. HARRISON

'Tis better that a man's own works, than that another man's words should praise him
L. ESTRANGE

We make mistakes the gratuitous blessings of heaven for the fruits of our industry
L. ESTRANGE

It is not the place, not the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.
L. ESTRANGE

Of all injustice, that is the greatest which goes under the name of law; and of all sorts of tyranny...
L. ESTRANGE

It’s a mistake to act as though we’re not created equal.
It’s another mistake not to corr...
L. ANTHONY

One of the things that I'm really proud of is that I have really good timing. It's very easy...
GARY VAYNERCHUK

I influence anybody who is able to get through the chaos of my first impression.
GARY VAYNERCHUK

When I was living in Mexico and writing a book called 'Aztec,' I had to make a deliberate ef...
GARY JENNINGS

I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two majo...
GARY JOHNSON

For some reason, Superman seems to be held to higher standards on the subject of secret/super identi...
GARY FRANK

Keep yourself motivated. You've got to be motivated, you've got to wake up every day and und...
GARY COHN

If there were no government-guaranteed student loans, college tuition would be much lower.
GARY JOHNSON

You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.
GARY ALLAN

Somebody said they threw their copy of Dungeons and Dragons into the fire, and it screamed. It's...
GARY GYGAX

Both the Winter and the Summer Solstices are expressions of love. They show us the opposition of lig...
GARY ZUKAV

When two people in an intimate-couple relationship look at their interactions as opportunities to le...
GARY ZUKAV

The more aware of your intentions and your experiences you become, the more you will be able to conn...
GARY ZUKAV

A spiritual partnership is between people who promise themselves to use all of their experiences to ...
GARY ZUKAV

The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a p...
GARY ZUKAV

There is no other way to change something or someone for the better except to occupy it first. The o...
GARY ZUKAV

We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we w...
GARY ZUKAV

The coming and going of the seasons give us more than the springtimes, summers, autumns, and winters...
GARY ZUKAV

The characteristics of an authentically empowered personality are humbleness, clarity, forgiveness a...
GARY ZUKAV

We cannot stop the winter or the summer from coming. We cannot stop the spring or the fall or make t...
GARY ZUKAV

The heart of the 2008 financial crisis was a coterie of reckless financial executives, working for t...
GARY WEISS

Enhanced interrogation is not to be considered lightly, but the use of enhanced interrogation techni...
GARY BAUER

I just see religious freedom, as a category, as just being a black hole.
GARY JOHNSON

Particularly black Americans, many of them, from quotes that I have seen and conversations I've ...
GARY BAUER

People are fed up with the way things are. There is a lot of bitterness out there, a lot of anger ab...
GARY LINEKER

I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an ...
GARY WRIGHT

By the law of averages, there has to be life elsewhere. The universe is so huge, and I don't thi...
GARY WRIGHT

I was the first artist, I think, to ever do an all-keyboard album. There were things that resembled ...
GARY WRIGHT

Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies.
GARY WRIGHT

I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performance...
GARY WRIGHT

I like Anastacia's version of Love is Alive best.
GARY WRIGHT

I will be developing artists for my new label. The rest is in God's Hands.
GARY WRIGHT

I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them...
GARY WRIGHT

In 1972, George Harrison invited me to accompany him on a trip to India.
GARY WRIGHT

My music and lyrics became an extension of this Indian philosophy.
GARY WRIGHT

The idea to do the album only on keyboards kind of happened by accident. I was quite happy with the ...
GARY WRIGHT

The more far-out artists, the better.
GARY WRIGHT

We visited Ravi. We didn't study with him, as such.
GARY WRIGHT

I scored a movie called 'Endangered Species'. I worked on another movie called 'Staying ...
GARY WRIGHT

Music is an extremely powerful force if used properly to uplift people. I believe music should be up...
GARY WRIGHT

No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist's work and download it free is stealing. It'...
GARY WRIGHT

Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.
GARY WRIGHT

Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessa...
GARY WOLF

Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.
GARY WOLF

Every day the choristers of the social web chirp their advice about openness and trust; craigslist f...
GARY WOLF

The Internet's great promise is to make the world's information universally accessible and u...
GARY WOLF

As a science fiction fan, I had always assumed that when computers supplemented our intelligence, it...
GARY WOLF

The intersection of political analysis and Internet theory is a busy crossroad of cliche, where fami...
GARY WOLF

Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl th...
GARY WOLF

Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macin...
GARY WOLF

Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic...
GARY WOLF

Craigslist is not only gigantic in scale and totally resistant to business cooperation, it is also m...
GARY WOLF

Humans make errors. We make errors of fact and errors of judgment. We have blind spots in our field ...
GARY WOLF

Being a 911 operator means balancing seemingly contradictory skills. On one hand, operators have to ...
GARY WOLF

The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it...
GARY WOLF

For all their expertise at figuring out how things work, technical people are often painfully aware ...
GARY WOLF

If national safety - the ability to respond to hurricanes, terrorist attacks, earthquakes - depends ...
GARY WOLF

During a large disaster, like Hurricane Katrina, warnings get hopelessly jumbled. The truth is that,...
GARY WOLF

Beefs against debt collectors are consistently among the top complaints received by both the FTC and...
GARY WEISS

Oil futures were originally created to give heating oil dealers, gas retailers, aviation companies a...
GARY WEISS

Broadcasts from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange have propelled once-obscure financial journ...
GARY WEISS

At their worst, message boards can subject you to mindless braying or outright stock scams. But at t...
GARY WEISS

When the Securities & Exchange Commission settled securities-fraud charges against Richard Harri...
GARY WEISS

George Soros is one of the few characters from the world of finance who deserves to be called larger...
GARY WEISS

India may be the only country in the world that has been free of anti-Semitic prejudice throughout i...
GARY WEISS

People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are ent...
GARY WEISS

With such enormous bucks devoted to trading in oil and other commodities, the distortions that they ...
GARY WEISS

Even a casual reader of the financial pages knows that microcaps are a perennial headache for regula...
GARY WEISS

Mutual funds dare to be average. In fact, they dare to be lousy. They have long since ceased strivin...
GARY WEISS

I've met Dick Syron. I like the guy. He's a man's man kind of character, a real charmer,...
GARY WEISS

Indians are sometimes accused of being condescending toward Westerners and of being excessively prea...
GARY WEISS

The flip side of humiliation is pride.
GARY WEISS

Humiliating events have a way of capturing the public's imagination. So it has been since antiqu...
GARY WEISS

Some hedge fund managers have made big bucks trading oil futures - George Soros is one.
GARY WEISS

In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as w...
GARY WEISS

Excessive hype, bankruptcy, cash burning like autumn leaves - such is the stuff of short-selling.
GARY WEISS

One problem with the focus on speculation is that it tends to promote the growth of the great intell...
GARY WEISS

You can't believe the government - on anything. And you especially can't believe them when t...
GARY WEBB

After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S....
GARY WEBB

Beaujolais is so underrated.
GARY VAYNERCHUK

Nobody walks this earth thinking he's better than I think I am - I think I'm great. At the s...
GARY VAYNERCHUK

Storytelling is the game. It's what we all do. It's why Nike is Nike, it's why Apple is ...
GARY VAYNERCHUK

The reason we love our parents is because they loved us first. Every single company should take this...
GARY VAYNERCHUK

Be reactionary. React to what the market wants. And the market wants one-on-one real time engagement...
GARY VAYNERCHUK

The world has changed - through technology, through wine-making techniques, the quality of wine is g...
GARY VAYNERCHUK

It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love t...
GARY VAYNERCHUK

I love people, and the hustle.
GARY VAYNERCHUK

When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. M...
GARY VAYNERCHUK

I am wired like a CEO and care a great deal about the bottom line, but I care about my customers eve...
GARY VAYNERCHUK

Stop doing things that waste time. Don't replace time with your family or things that you need t...
GARY VAYNERCHUK

The chef that grew up with the grandma who cooks tends to always beat the chef that went to the culi...
GARY VAYNERCHUK

My dad passed on asthma to me. It's kind of ironic because he outgrew it at 13.
GARY VALENTINE

The key in controlling my asthma is pretty simple: I have a good professional diagnosis, and I follo...
GARY VALENTINE

Asthma doesn't affect me, even though I have it. It can seem like it wants to act up a little if...
GARY VALENTINE

I love everything about playing for Newcastle, the club, the fans and the city.
GARY SPEED

I have won 85 caps and have had a great career with Wales and have enjoyed every minute of it.
GARY SPEED

Everyone tells me to play as long as you can. Sometimes, it goes in one ear and out the other.
GARY SPEED

If I had my time again and was able to change one thing from my career then I wouldn't have reti...
GARY SPEED

A lot of people still disregard something like yoga. I would have as a young player. I would have be...
GARY SPEED

If you've got aspirations to be a manager or coach, obviously coaching your country would be a g...
GARY SPEED

You've got to believe you can get a result from the game.
GARY SPEED

I think it's unfair to criticise someone for not being Welsh, but the smaller the nation, the mo...
GARY SPEED

Everyone I know is fervently proud to be Welsh but you try not to be preachy about it. It's diff...
GARY SPEED

Goal scoring is a recurring theme. If you aren't scoring then you aren't going to win games....
GARY SPEED

Most of the time, those who use animals in experiments justify that use by pointing to alleged benefits to human and animal health and the supposed necessity of using animals to obtain those benefits.

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Most of the time, those who use animals in experiments justify that use by pointing to alleged benefits to human and animal health and the supposed necessity of using animals to obtain those benefits.

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