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Gary L. Francione

"We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience."

Gary L. Francione, American Educator
Animals, Amusement, Defense, Entertainment
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"Because animals are property, we consider as "humane treatment" that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans."

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"Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends."

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"Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old."

Bill Bryson, American Writer
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"They are the most fascinating, intelligent, resourceful, adaptable animals I have ever seen. Grizzlies are a real symbol of true wildness."

Jim Cole, American Photographer
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"Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if we're put here on earth to show how silly they aren't."

Russell Hoban, American Novelist
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"The dog is a gentleman, I hope to go to his heaven not man's."

Mark Twain, American Author
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"Animals will always have sad eyes because they can see into the soul of man."

Anthony T. Hincks, British Writer
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"The main point for me is moral; animals are sentient beings. I know for some this is a hard argument to accept, but we're not built to eat a lot of meat."

Grace Slick, American Musician
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"It was always understood that plants and animals, though completely contrasted in their higher representatives, approached each other very closely in their lower and simpler forms. But they were believed not to blend."

Asa Gray, American Scientist
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