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The Abolitionist Approach to Animal Rights
There seems to be a hell of a lot of confusion among animal advocates about what it means to promote and support the abolition of the exploitation of animals. The abolitionist approach to animal rights, as developed by Prof. Gary L. Francione, makes...
Divisiveness à la Post Punk Kitchen
A fellow vegan abolitionist who (along with his lovely partner) runs a small animal rescue operation in Chicago mentioned today that Isa Chandra Moskovitch, well-selling Post Punk Kitchen vegan cookbook author, has been publicly expressing her dismis...
PeTA and Peter Singer: What's the Problem?
This is just a quick post to draw attention to a couple of pieces that should be read by those sitting on the fence about a) where PeTA really stands in terms of animal rights, and b) whether Peter Singer has ever actually had anything whatsoever to ...
On Consistency
Vincent Guihan at We Other Animals wrote something today that anyone and everyone involved in animal advocacy needs to read. An excerpt:They'll know us not by our words but by our works,and if our works promote a kinder, gentler slavery rather than ...
Adam Kochanowicz Interviews Professor Gary L. Francione
Just a handful of days after being interviewed by Elizabeth Collins of the NZ Vegan Podcast on the differences between welfarism and the abolitionist approach to animal rights, Professor Gary L. Francione is on the interwebs again to discuss those va...
NZ Vegan Podcast Episode 32 - Interview with Professor Gary L. Francione
Another episode of Elizabeth Collins' NZ Vegan Podcast is out. In this one, she interviews Professor Gary L. Francione to talk about the abolitionist approach to animal rights and how it differs from the new welfarist (or regulationist) approach. T...
HSUS' Paul Shapiro Reaches Out to Meat Industry
HSUS has been keeping busy trying to reassure farmers who raise animals for their products or for slaughter that HSUS is no threat to them. Back on July 1, I wrote about an AgriTalk radio interview with HSUS President and CEO Wayne Pacelle, where Pac...
Must-Reads: Unpopular Vegan Essays
In his Unpopular Vegan Essays blog, Dan Cudahy wrote an excellent piece contrasting the rights-based abolitionist approach to new welfarism. He clarifies what importance either side places on veganism, with abolitionists using it as their absolute m...
Max, Stop Pulling on My Pigtails, Will Ya?
Yesterday, The Atlantic's "Vegeterianismism" writer Max Fisher tweeted about his latest article--this one focusing on what he assesses as vegetarians' proper behaviour. In his tweet, he linked to my blog post from a month ago, where I'd commented on ...
Gary L. Francione's Abolitionist Approach to Animal Rights
I've had a couple of vegan friends and readers unfamiliar with Professor Gary L. Francione's work email me over the past few weeks with some questions about its basic arguments for an abolitionist approach to animal rights. I figure that the best pl...
Peter Singer's Interview w/ Slow Food Movement International Revisited
At the beginning of the week, I posted about a recent Peter Singer interview in which he seems to come right out and embrace all that is touted as ethical in the "happy meat" movement. Gary L. Francione expressed his thoughts on the same interview i...
Gary Francione's VeganFreak Radio Interview
Bob and Jenna Torres host an amazing kinda-monthly podcast called Vegan Freak Radio. I've gushed over it here before. Bob's a sociology professor and both are animal abolitionists (i.e. they seek the eradication of the use of animals for human c...
