Gary L. Francione Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• 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.

  Gary L. Francione

  Death, Fashion, Ideas

• Michael Vick may enjoy watching dogs fight. Someone else may find that repulsive but see nothing wrong with eating an animal who has had a life as full of pain and suffering as the lives of the fighting dogs. It's strange that we regard the latter as morally different from, and superior to, the former.

  Gary L. Francione

  Dog, Pain, Fighting

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

  Gary L. Francione

  Thinking, Suffering, Vegan

• There is no meaningful distinction between eating flesh and eating dairy or other animal products. Animals exploited in the dairy industry live longer than those used for meat, but they are treated worse during their lives, and they end up in the same slaughterhouse after which we consume their flesh anyway. There is probably more suffering in a glass of milk or an ice cream cone than there is in a steak.

  Gary L. Francione

  Meaningful, Animal, Glasses

  Gary L. Francione (2009). “Animals as Persons: Essays on the Abolition of Animal Exploitation”, p.108, Columbia University Press

• We are vegans not simply because being vegan will reduce suffering. We are vegan because every sentient being values her or his life even if no one else does. We are vegan because justice minimally requires that we not take life for trivial purposes.

  Gary L. Francione

  Justice, Suffering, Doe

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

  Gary L. Francione

  Animal, Suffering And Death, Decision

• There is no moral distinction between fur and other materials made from animals, such as leather, which also is the result of the suffering and death of sentient beings.

  Gary L. Francione

  Animal, Suffering And Death, Fur

• I find it very annoying that so many animal advocates talk about the difficulty of being vegan. Many animal advocates are inclined to make the issue their suffering and not the animals' suffering, and I suppose that accounts for part of the reason that veganism is portrayed as such a "sacrifice." And many animal advocates are not vegans, or are "flexible vegans," which means that they do not observe veganism at all or not consistently, and emphasizing the supposed difficulty of veganism is part of justifying their own behavior.

  Gary L. Francione

  Mean, Sacrifice, Animal

  Interview with Deb Olin Unferth, believermag.com. February 1, 2011.

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