gary francione is a distinguished professor of law and nicholas katzenbach scholar of law and philosophy.@ rutgers school of law in newark, an author, and tiresless advocate for the animals.
if you google gary, you'll find him in plenty of places - many times recorded for radio shows. the last i heard was a radio netherlands debate. creative, nonviolent, vegan education - that's his thing.
below are gary's '6 principles of the animal rights position'. these principles are a snapshot of his life's work, fighting the oppression of all animals, human and nonhuman and can be found @ his abolitionist approach website. gary francione inspires me no end.
The Six Principles of the Animal Rights Position
- The animal rights position maintains that all sentient beings, humans or nonhumans, have one right: the basic right not to be treated as the property of others.
- Our recognition of the one basic right means that we must abolish, and not merely regulate, institutionalized animal exploitation—because it assumes that animals are the property of humans.
- Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.
- We recognize that we will not abolish overnight the property status of nonhumans, but we will support only those campaigns and positions that explicitly promote the abolitionist agenda. We will not support positions that call for supposedly “improved” regulation of animal exploitation. We reject any campaign that promotes sexism, racism, heterosexism or other forms of discrimination against humans.
- We recognize that the most important step that any of us can take toward abolition is to adopt the vegan lifestyle and to educate others about veganism. Veganism is the principle of abolition applied to one’s personal life and the consumption of any meat, fowl, fish, or dairy product, or the wearing or use of animal products, is inconsistent with the abolitionist perspective.
- We recognize the principle of nonviolence as the guiding principle of the animal rights movement.
WOW, gina lolabrigida says "go vegan. why not?"
