Gary L. Francione

Gary Lawrence Francione is an American legal scholar. He is the Distinguished Professor of Law and Nicholas deB.

Katzenbach Scholar of Law & Philosophy at Rutgers School of Law–Newark. Francione is known for his work on animal rights theory, and in 1989, was the first academic to teach it in an American law school.

Date of birth:
05-1954
"There is no ‘need’ for us to eat meat, dairy or eggs. Indeed, these foods are increasingly linked to various human diseases and animal agriculture is an environmental disaster for the planet."
― Gary L. Francione
Topic(s): Environmental
"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."
― Gary L. Francione
Topic(s): Age

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