We are vegans not simply because being vegan will reduce suffering. We are vegan because every sentient being … - Gary L. Francione

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What I recognized is that you can't put it together. It's already together, and what you have to do is experience it being together.

Gary L. Francione

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.

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Domesticated animals such as dogs and cats are vulnerable and entirely dependent on us for all of their needs. They live very unnatural lives because they are not part of the human world and they are not part of the animal world.

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Veganism must be the baseline if we are to have any hope of shifting the paradigm away from animals as things and toward animals as nonhuman persons.

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There is no morally coherent difference between fur and other animal clothing, such as leather, wool, etc. , just as there is no morally coherent distinction between meat and milk or eggs.

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99% of our uses of animals, including our numerically most significant use of them for food, do not involve any sort of necessity or any real conflict between human and nonhuman interests. If animals matter morally at all, then, even without accepting a theory of animal rights, those uses of animals cannot be morally justified.

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Even if plants were sentient, veganism would still be a moral imperative given that it takes many pounds of plants to produce one pound of flesh.

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