As far as I'm concerned, veganism is the single most important form of social activism that anybody can engage in. --- Prof. Gary L. Francione [AbolitionistApproach.com ] .......... "You cannot be an abolitionist as I use that term in my theory of the abolitionist approach to AR and not be a vegan"--- Prof Gary L Francione .............. "We can see quite plainly that our present civilization is built on the exploitation of animals, just as past civilisations were built on the exploitation of slaves, and we believe that spiritual destiny of man is such that in time he will view with abhorrence the idea that men once fed on the products of animal?s bodies." ~ Donald Watson (November, 1944)............ We'll never change the world unless we change people's hearts through a vision of nonviolence; that begins with veganism. --- Prof Gary L Francione........ From the The Yogasastra of Hemacandra, a 12th century Jain ascetic/scholar: "Those who eat the meat of other [living beings] in order to satisfy their own flesh, they are definitely murderers [themselves], since without a consumer [there can be] no killer." --- Chapter 3, passage 23. (Harvard,)........... Do not let new welfarists [or anyone else] convince you that veganism is "hard" or that vegans think that they are "special". Veganism is increasingly easy in the 21st century. What?s hard is being a nonhuman animal whose property status robs her of any meaningful moral consideration." Roger Yates (October 5, 2008)............... "The reality is that we are never going to see any change until we shift the paradigm away from violence to non-violence; away from 'humane' treatment to the abolition of use." .........Gary L. Francione............ "Veganism is the only coherent response to our recognition that animals are members of the moral community."---- Gary L. Francione .................. "The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men." Alice Walker (author "The Color Purple") "Veganism is the application of the principle of abolition in your own life; it represents your recognition that animals are not things. Veganism is the recognition of the moral personhood of nonhuman animals." --- Gary L Francione abolitionistapproach.com .................... "Injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured." -----Martin Luther King Jr......... "Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better."-----Martin Luther King, Jr............. "Veganism is the recognition of the moral personhood of nonhuman animals." Gary L. Francione Random Tweet by Gary L Francione : "We cannot justify domestication. But we have an obligation to care for those domesticates that are here now. Please adopt." "If you think that being vegan is difficult, imagine how difficult it is for animals that you are not vegan." -- Gary L Francione ............. From Twitter: "I am often asked why I bring civil rights / women's rights / gay rights into my work. Answer: All forms of discrimination are related and represent violence." Gary L Francione .............. "I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.----- Mahatma Gandhi............... "Speciesism is morally objectionable because, like racism, sexism, and heterosexism, it links personhood with an irrelevant criterion. Those who reject speciesism are committed to rejecting racism, sexism, heterosexism, and other forms of discrimination as well." -- Gary L Francione ...... abolitionistapproach.com .............. "He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it."------Martin Luther King, Jr............ "Veganism is the only moral choice if we truly want to reduce suffering, respect the moral standing of non-human animals, and ultimately reach total abolition of non-human animal use. There's nothing hard about it, there's nothing obsessive about it, and there?s nothing inconsistent about it." --- Corey Wrenn................... [L]et's stop talking about veganism as a matter of compassion, benevolence and other nice-sounding, but ultimately anthropocentric missives. The idea that we are "being kind", "acting compassionately", or "saving lives" just by being vegan is misguided. It's also paternalistic. Veganism is a matter of justice, and it reflects the absolute minimum of justice that I owe other persons (human and non). That doesn't mean we're not compassionate people. It doesn't mean we can't act compassionately toward other animals (human or non). It just means that veganism is what we owe them. It's not an act of charity. ----Vincent J. Guihan (October 23, 2009)............. "All sentient beings should have at least one right?the right not to be treated as property" ---Gary L. Francione................. "The only devils in the world are those running around in our own hearts and that's where all our battles ought to be fought" --- Gandhi.......... "Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it." -----Maimonides............ "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." Michel Aoun ........ "The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.----- Albert Camus (Writer).............. "Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed." Martin Luther King, Jr............. "Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it." The Buddha (563-483 B.C.)..................
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LOBSA links to various web pages that may be useful to those who want to learn more about going vegan; however, I do not necessarily agree with or support all of the positions and activities of the organizations or individuals behind these web pages. LOBSA promotes vegan living as the only viable way of abolishing the property status animals in society and the inherent and unnecessary cruelty inevitably resulting from animals status as property and economic commodities. LOBSA does NOT promote welfare reform or regulation of the use of animals in any way due to the profound and inherent conflict between welfare versus the legal and economic status as property and commodities. As long as nonhuman animals are considered "things", property, and/or economic resources, instead of sentient beings with their own interests, there will be no meaningful changes in the cruelty that billions of them endure from birth to death. ...Thanks to Dan Cudahy for this description..........
