Animal Rights: The Abolitionist Approach
Animal Rights: The Abolitionist Approach explores animal rights issues from a perspective that "requires the abolition of animal exploitation and rejects the notion that animal use is acceptable if we treat animals 'humanely.' "
Author: Author Gary L. Francione is a law and philosophy professor at Rutgers University School of Law-Newark.
Blawg Related Categories: Animal Law • Rutgers University-Newark • Law Professor
Recent Posts from Animal Rights: The Abolitionist Approach
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Is there anything that you want to eat that badly?
Dear Colleagues: I never fail to be amazed when I hear people—including well-known promoters of animal welfare—claim quite remarkably that animals do not have an interest in continued life; they just have an interest in…
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Another Welfarist “Revolution” That Wasn’t
Dear Colleagues: As you know, I do not believe that welfare reforms provide significant benefits for nonhuman animals even when these reforms are implemented. But they often are not even implemented. That is, there are…
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A Disturbing Partnership
Dear Colleagues: In much of my writing, I have argued that the promotion of the “happy meat” approach has led not only to making the public more comfortable about consuming animal products but it has…
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“Happy Meat:” Making Humans Feel Better About Eating Animals
Dear Colleagues: Two recent articles from Gourmet Magazine show us the clear direction in which the “happy meat” movement (see, e.g., 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8) being promoted by virtually all of…
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And Another…
Dear Colleagues: The Associated Press has reported the following story: (AP) A 23-year-old woman who got a friend to kill her Jack Russell terrier was charged with skinning the puppy to make a belt out…
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Yet Another Example of Moral Schizophrenia
Dear Colleagues: For many years now, I have been using the expression “moral schizophrenia” to describe the confused and deluded way in which we humans think about the moral status of nonhuman animals. This morning,…
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Poor Che Guevara
Dear Colleagues: Although I am opposed to all violence, and, therefore, I do not approve of the violence that Ernesto “Che” Guevara used to liberate Cuba from the U.S. backed Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista, I…
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Context Makes All the Difference
Dear Colleagues: Professor Gary Steiner alerted me to an interesting video from the Onion News Network. It involves a “news” story about a young gymnast who is “euthanized” by her parents after she suffers a…
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Making a Vegan Education Kiosk
Dear Colleagues: The abolitionist approach, as it is discussed and developed on this site and in my work over the past 20 years, maintains that going vegan and using creative, nonviolent methods of educating others…
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HOME Parties: More Nonviolent Activist Education
Dear Colleagues: Last week, I blogged about HOME, an extraordinary documentary about how human greed and materialism are destroying our planet. Although HOME was (and as of today still is) available on YouTube, it is…