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Gary L. Francione Quotes
Gary L. Francione
American
Educator
Born:
1954
Animal
Animals
Entertainment
Humans
Suffering
Think
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There is increasing social concern about our use of nonhumans for experiments, food, clothing and entertainment. This concern about animals reflects both our own moral development as a civilization and our recognition that the differences between humans and animals are, for the most part, differences of degree and not of kind.
Gary L. Francione
Food
Entertainment
Degree
Animals
Own
Differences
Increasing
Our
Recognition
Kind
Moral
About
Both
Civilization
Part
Development
Between
Most
Concern
Reflects
Clothing
Experiments
Social
Use
Humans
The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.
Gary L. Francione
Characteristics
Evolution
Mental
Absent
Proposition
Theory
Wholly
Humans
Inconsistent
We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.
Gary L. Francione
Entertainment
Animals
Defense
Our
Pleasure
Wear
Eat
Only
Purposes
Convenience
Use
Uses
Need
Amusement
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
Death
Suffering
Result
Made
Animals
Other
Fur
Distinction
Moral
Between
Also
Leather
Materials
Which
Sentient
Beings
We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.
Gary L. Francione
Obligations
Animals
Think
Our
Moral
About
Clearly
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