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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Commentary: World Vegan Day—Nov. 1, 2009
Dear Colleagues: Happy World Vegan Day to all of you. In this Commentary, I reflect on the state of the vegan movement. The bad news: the large welfare corporations have done a great deal to…
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Some Thoughts on the Abolitionist Approach
Dear Colleagues: Here are some simple thoughts that embody the abolitionist approach and philosophy. They may be useful to you in your own thinking about things as well as in your discussion with others: 1.…
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Source Materials on Donald Watson
Dear Colleagues: Donald Watson (1910-2005), co-founder of the Vegan Society in the U.K. and the person who coined the term “vegan” in response to the consumption and use of dairy and other animal products by…
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Commentary: Using Sexism to Promote Animal Rights
Dear Colleagues: Would Martin Luther King have had an “I’d Rather Go Naked than Sit in the Back of the Bus” campaign? Of course not. He would have recognized that such a campaign would trivialize…
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Some Thoughts on the Meaning of “Vegan”
There is a great deal of discussion about what “vegan” means. “Veganism” means at the very least not eating any flesh, dairy, or other animal products. In this sense, “vegan” means “vegan diet.” Donald Watson,…
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Commentary: A Discussion of Abolitionist Principles
Dear Colleagues: There are some advocates who claim to be abolitionists but who support welfare reform or who support violence. In this Commentary, I explain why welfare reform and violence cannot fit into the abolitionist…
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Sexism and Misogyny in the Movement
Dear Colleagues: For two decades now, I have argued that using sexism and misogyny supposedly to promote animal rights is a very bad idea. Perpetuating the commodification of women is not only inherently immoral but…
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Commentary: An Up-Close and Personal Encounter with Moral Schizophrenia
Dear Colleagues: I refer to the delusional and confused way that we think about animals as a social/moral matter as constituting “moral schizophrenia.” I had a recent encounter with moral schizophrenia in dealing with a…
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Facebook Announcement
Dear Colleagues: I would imagine that most of you would not choose to spend time with people who show up at “town hall” meetings and propose civil war or talk about “nazi” health plans, or…
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Hey, Is That Milk on Your Balaclava?
Dear Colleagues: As you know, I am opposed to all violence. See, e.g., A Commentary on Violence (podcast), A Comment on Violence, More on Violence and Animal Rights, and On Vivisection and Violence. That has…