Gary L Francione

Board of Governors Professor of Law; Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers University, US; University of Lincoln, UK

Gary L Francione is Board of Governors Professor of Law at Rutgers University School of Law in New Jersey, US; visiting professor of philosophy at the University of Lincoln, UK; and honorary professor of philosophy at the University of East Anglia, UK. His most recent book is Why Veganism Matters: The Moral Value of Animals (Columbia University Press, 2021).

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Written by Gary L Francione

Two pigs peer through a window with metal bars, in a black-and-white photograph.

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We must not own animals

We will never truly advance our ethical relationship with other animals until we stop treating them as chattels for use

Gary L Francione

Three brown and white cattle crowded close together, looking towards the camera.

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A ‘humanely’ killed animal is still killed – and that’s wrong

Anna E Charlton & Gary L Francione

A golden retriever lying on a patterned rug indoors, resting its head on its front paws while looking at the camera.

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The case against pets

A morally just world would have no pets, no aquaria, no zoos. No fields of sheep, no barns of cows. That’s true animal rights

Gary L Francione & Anna E Charlton