The Misunderstood Mammal

05/06/2020

Powerful pictures of protest and change

04/06/2020

A New Abolitionist Approach Poster

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Video: 'Some Thoughts on the Meaning of "Vegan"'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4p6JD0vRnk

24/04/2020

God speaks.

09/04/2020

A New Abolitionist Approach Poster

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“Always make sure that the person with whom you are talking understands that you are focusing on the immorality of animal exploitation as an institutionalized practice and that you are not judging that person as an individual. Approach that person as someone who has not yet really grappled with the issues involved in animal ethics and you are there to educate—and not to judge.

On the other hand, you should always be clear that veganism is a moral imperative. That is, if animals have moral value—if they are not just things—then our moral obligation is to stop eating, wearing, and using them. Anything less than that represents continued and direct participation in animal exploitation.”

~ Gary L. Francione

From: “Advocacy Tip: Judge Action, Not Individuals”

https://www.abolitionistapproach.com/advocacy-tip-judge-action-not-individuals/

08/04/2020

Protect Big Cats: https://hsus.link/yt_bigcat In 2011 an HSUS investigator worked undercover at Joe Exotic’s G.W. Exotics for 100 days. In 2014 the HSUS inve...

04/04/2020

31/03/2020

A New Abolitionist Approach Poster

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“I don’t see not exploiting vulnerable beings–human or nonhuman–as being about ‘personal purity.’ I see it as a matter of caring about fundamental justice and acting on it. To call that a matter of ‘personal purity’ is simply to say that justice should not be a matter of clear moral principle. And I could not disagree with that more.”

~ Gary L. Francione

From: “Veganism, PETA, Farm Sanctuary, Peter Singer, ‘Personal Purity’, and Principles of Justice

https://www.abolitionistapproach.com/veganism-peta-farm-sanctuary-peter-singer-personal-purity-principles-justice/

24/03/2020

A New Abolitionist Approach Poster

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“The Abolitionist Approach regards veganism as a moral imperative. By this we mean that if animals matter morally, we are morally obligated to stop eating, wearing, and using them. That is, going vegan is not just an option for someone who agrees that animals matter morally; it is a fundamental moral obligation.”

~ Gary L. Francione

From: “Veganism as a Moral Imperative”

https://www.abolitionistapproach.com/veganism-moral-imperative/

20/03/2020

The Chinese government has permanently banned the wildlife markets suspected to be at the center of the COVID-19 pandemic. Will factory farms be next?

17/03/2020

My colleague, Dr. Daniel Came, sent me this. He saw it on Facebook and does not know the author. Given that the present pandemic like most originated through the cross-species transmission of microorganisms from animals to humans, a vegan world would be the best way to prevent these things, which will only increase with climate catastrophe.

06/03/2020

When Joe Biden's wife blocked anti-dairy protesters from reaching him onstage in L.A., it was one more sign of the rise of the "Moo Too" movement.

29/02/2020

A New Abolitionist Approach Poster

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“We cannot justify failing to extend this one right to nonhumans unless we arbitrarily declare that animals have no moral value whatsoever, a position that most people reject. Therefore, if animals matter morally, we cannot treat them exclusively as resources and recognizing the right not to be property would rule out all institutionalized exploitation of animals. Abolitionists (as I use the term) reject domestication and maintain that nonhumans ought not to be brought into existence for human use, however ‘humanely’.”

~ Gary L. Francione

From: “Abolitionist Animal Rights/Abolitionist Veganism: in a Nutshell”

https://www.abolitionistapproach.com/abolitionist-animal-rights-abolitionist-veganism-in-a-nutshell/

27/02/2020

25/02/2020

More thoroughbreds are slaughtered each year than die as a result of racing. Mike McBarron makes a living on it. Sonja Meadows is fighting to stop it.

19/02/2020

A New Abolitionist Approach Poster

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“There are two and only two choices:

Choice 1: You stop eating, wearing, and otherwise using all nonhuman animals;

Choice 2: You continue to participate directly in exploiting nonhuman animals.

There is no third choice. You are either vegan or you are participating directly in animal exploitation.”

~ Gary L. Francione

From: “There Is No Third Choice”

https://www.abolitionistapproach.com/there-is-no-third-choice/

18/02/2020

A New Abolitionist Approach Poster

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“The problem is one of use and there is one and only one “fix”–going vegan and having a grassroots movement that makes crystal clear to the public that moral concern about animals means going vegan.”

~ Gary L. Francione

From: “What? The Humane Slaughter Act is Not Being Enforced?”

https://www.abolitionistapproach.com/humane-slaughter-act-enforced/

16/02/2020

15/02/2020

A New Abolitionist Approach Poster

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“The best justification we have for the unimaginable amount of suffering and death that we impose on animals is that they taste good. We enjoy the taste of animal foods. But how is this any different from Michal Vick claiming that his dog fighting operation was justifiable because he enjoyed watching dogs fight? Vick liked sitting around a pit watching animals fight. We enjoy sitting around the summer barbecue pit roasting the corpses of animals who have had lives and deaths that are as bad, if not worse than, Vick’s dogs. What is the difference between Michael Vick and those of us who eat animal foods?”

~ Gary L. Francione

From: “Eat Like You Care”

https://www.abolitionistapproach.com/books/eat-like-you-care-an-examination-of-the-morality-of-eating-animals/eat-like-you-care/

15/02/2020

The Best Actor winner elevated the moral worth of animals to a national audience.

10/02/2020

Joaquin Phoenix took home the Oscar for best actor for his role in "Joker." Read the transcript of his touching speech.

06/02/2020

So much we don’t understand. Just live and let live.

Researchers put a squid in an MRI to study its neural networks. The resulting snapshots are stunning.

06/02/2020

Whether you're new to the kitchen, new to being vegan, or just looking for some new things to try.

06/02/2020

A New Abolitionist Approach Poster

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Animal Ethics: Simple Common Sense

http://www.abolitionistapproach.com/animal-ethics-simple-common-sense/ #.WIPw5VzarVI

01/02/2020

Some cool stories of growth

https://freefromharm.org/humane-farmer/

More and more animal farmers are going vegan and urging the public that "humane farming" means plant-based farming. Our growing collection of transformation stories will inspire you.

01/02/2020

This is an awesome recipe for a vegan breakfast sandwich made with smokey tofu bacon, hash potato, chickpea egg, served on a bagel or English muffin. Yum!

30/01/2020

A New Abolitionist Approach Poster

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“Since the beginning of time, there have been—in total—about 110 billion humans who have lived and died. We kill more nonhuman animals than that every single year. Think about that for a second. Our exploitation of nonhumans represents violence on a scale that is unparalleled. The largest number of animals we kill is for food—about 60 billion land animals and at least one trillion sea animals killed annually. And there are many billions more killed every year for various other reasons, including biomedical research, entertainment, and sport.”

~ Gary L. Francione

From: “Advocate for Animals!: An Abolitionist Vegan Handbook”

https://www.abolitionistapproach.com/books/advocate-for-animals-an-abolitionist-vegan-handbook/

26/01/2020

Vegan is a form of protest, join the fight

"Veganism is an act of nonviolent defiance. It is our statement that we reject the notion that animals are things and that we regard sentient nonhumans as moral persons with the fundamental moral right not to be treated as the property or resources of humans."

~ Gary L. Francione

23/01/2020

"If you are not vegan, please consider going vegan. It’s a matter of nonviolence. Being vegan is your statement that you reject violence to other sentient beings, to yourself, and to the environment, on which all sentient beings depend.” ~ Gary L. Francione

21/01/2020

"Veganism:

It’s not about you and your journey.

It’s about them and their rights."

~ Gary L. Francione

19/01/2020

Speciesism is no different than racism.

19/01/2020

Circuses and zoos should become a thing of the past.

Denmark is spending 11 million kroner ($1.6 million) on four circus elephants to give them a proper retirement as the government moves to ban wild animals in circuses.

19/01/2020

19/01/2020

A New Abolitionist Approach Poster

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“All animal products involve suffering; they all involve death; they all involve injustice. Veganism is a moral imperative; it is what we ought to do and we ought not to do anything less.”

~ Gary L. Francione

From: “Veganism as a Moral Imperative”

https://www.abolitionistapproach.com/veganism-moral-imperative/

18/01/2020

Racism, speciesism, it’s all the same