#Repost @gary.francione with @repostapp ã»ã»ã» The #abolitionist perspective is that the overwhelming amount of #animaluse involves only #pleasure, #amusement, or convenience. The most significant animal use both in terms of numbers of #animals involved and in terms of cultural importance is the use of animals for #food. We kill an estimated 58 billion land animals, and an unknown, but certainly not smaller number of aquatic animals, annually for food. Eating animal foods has generally been justified, at least in part, on grounds of human #health and sound #nutrition. Those grounds have, however, largely been discredited and it is now recognized that a #vegandiet is sufficient for health. Moreover, an increasing number of mainstream health-care professionals are claiming that animal foods are detrimental to human health. And there can no longer be any serious question whether animal agriculture is an #ecological disaster. The best justification for the staggering amount of #suffering and #death involved in the use of animals for food is that they taste good, we are used to eating animal foods, and they are convenient. Indeed, 99% of our animal use is transparently frivolous and contravenes a fundamental moral principle that we claim to accept. Our only use of animals that is not transparently frivolous, and analysis of which requires rights language, involves the use of animals to cure serious human illnesses. Putting aside that there are serious issues about the benefits for human health that are supposedly obtained from #vivisection, we cannot morally justify using animals in experiments where we would not be able to justify using similarly situated #humans. We regard humans as having a fundamental right not to be used exclusively as resources. We cannot justify failing to extend this right to nonhumans. Gary L. Francione Excerpt from essay: Abolitionist Animal Rights/Abolitionist Veganism: in a Nutshell http://bit.ly/2p2r06V ââ #govegan #veganism #justice #abolitionism #animalrights #nonviolence #vegansofinstagram #vegansofig #endanimalexploitation #garylfrancione #abolitionistapproach #ethicalvegans #endanimaluse #vegan
