Gary L. Francione

When it comes to animal agriculture, there is conventional, which is really hideous, and "compassionate" or "certified humane" or whatever, which *may* be *slightly* less hideous. But it's all torture. It's all wrong. These "happy" gimmicks are just designed to make the public feel better about exploiting animals. Don't buy the propaganda of "happy" exploitation. Go vegan and promote veganism.

Every time you drink a glass of milk or eat a piece of cheese, you harm a mother. Please go vegan.

Forty-two years after Dr. King was murdered, we are still a nation of inequality. People of color, women, gays, lesbians, and others are still treated as second-class citizens. Yes, things have changed but we have still not achieved equality among all humans. And nonhuman animals continue to be chattel property without any inherent value.

One of the main arguments that I make is that although almost everyone accepts that it is morally wrong to inflict __nnecessary_ suffering and death on animals, 99% of the suffering and death that we inflict on animals can be justified only by our pleasure, amusement, or convenience. For example, the best justification that we have for killing the billions of nonhumans that we eat every year is that we enjoy the taste of animal flesh and animal products. This is not an acceptable justification if we take seriously, as we purport to, that it is wrong to inflict unnecessary suffering or death on animals, and it illustrates the confused thinking that I characterize as our __oral schizophrenia_ when it comes to nonhumans.A follow-up question that I often get is: __hat about vivisection? Surely that use of animals is not merely for our pleasure, is it?__ivisection, Part One: The __ecessity_ of Vivisection | Animal Rights: The Abolitionist Approach