Encouraging Hit Stats
Greetings. I am pleased to announce that hits on the new web site vastly exceed all expectations. My web master advised me yesterday that in the 55 days since the launch which was April 21, 2012, there...
View ArticleUnconsenting Kitty Blood Donors: Quote in Article
As I was waiting to go to North Carolina for my summer vacation, I checked my e-mail in the Porter Airlines waiting area and got a request for a comment on this slavery practice. I think that staff...
View ArticleContributions to Scholarship
Many of my supporters wish to see my work get out there. (Many new and improved arguments wait in the wings though.) Anyway, such individuals will be pleased to know that my animal law approach is...
View ArticleShould Animal Rightists Only Argue Animal Rights?
Dr. Katherine Perlo, in The Journal for Critical Animal Studies, argues that it would be wrong for animal rights advocates prominently to feature arguments such as meat-eating is unhealthy and...
View ArticleFend Off Evil: Stamping Out State Anti-Cruelty Laws
Note: This entry needed to be revised with apologies. I thought King passed his amendment into law because the article, which never clarifies in this respect, said: "King...brags that his legislation...
View ArticleNon-Violence and the Doubtful Meaning of "Vegan"
A lot of people might think that the standard definition of a "vegan" in the animal rights movement, as someone who avoids all animal products, is perfectly acceptable, transparent, straightforward,...
View ArticleA Commentary on My Holocaust Comparisons
Note to the Reader: I am pleased and honoured that my friend, Dena Pezet, is allowing me to highlight a comment she made on the Holocaust Remembrance Day blog article. Dena is a lawyer, researcher, and...
View ArticleAnti-Cruelty Laws and Non-Violent Approximation
Readers have seen a principle I coined in my recent writings. It is called non-violent approximation. One could see it in action in my recent blog entry on the definition of veganism. Does this...
View ArticleNon-Violence in "The Rights of Animal Persons"
I now emphasize non-violence much more in my current writings as many have noticed, but as I said in my AR Zone interview, it was a feature of my past writings as well. Here is a quote from my 2006...
View ArticlePartial Retraction about Francione on Articulating the Centrality of...
A quasi-anonymous person going only by "Kaufman," whom I thought at first was Dr. Steve Kaufman, but it is not him, left a comment on a recent blog entry (September 10, 2012). In particular, I wrote in...
View ArticleThe Truth and Non-Violence versus "Happy Meat"
I use the principle of non-violent approximation in my blog entry on anti-cruelty laws, from August 20, 2012. I argue simply that it minimizes violence to animals to eradicate factory farming. However,...
View ArticleMore Statements Concerning Francione on Non-Violence
In addition to my partial retraction and explanation of why I erroneously wrote what I did in my blog, I would like to add the following positive statements: Gary Francione has done pioneering work in...
View ArticleStartling Decline in Meat Consumption Proves Francionists Are Wrong Once Again!
Please read this article by Paul Shapiro in VegNews (September 10, 2012): "Why US Meat Consumption Is Falling".It contains several facts that are of interest for the incrementalism versus...
View ArticleP.S. Re Francione's Talks
I said I've seen a number of talks by Francione and he did not mention non-violence. Perfectly true. But I have not heard him speak in the last decade. These were early days, before he was banned from...
View ArticleMy Personal Influences towards Non-Violence
I have commented a little on this question on AR Zone. Here we have something a good bit more thorough: I had known about Jainism - an ancient religion that essentially originated the non-violence...
View ArticleUse Not Treatment: Francione's Cracked Nutshell
On April 21, 2011, Gary Francione wrote a blog entry entitled, "The Abolitionist Approach in a Nutshell." A nutshell statement for a position that is right you would expect to be rock-solid or...
View ArticleA False Dilemma: Veganizing vs. Legalizing
In his latest blog entry of October 3, 2012, Francione rehearses another old argument that might seem philosophically compelling – if you don’t think about it, especially from an individual rights...
View ArticleFrancionist Means Are Inconsistent with the End of Maximally Negating Violence
Gary Francione states, in a blog entry on "Means and Ends" for October 6, 2012, that some activists indicate that there is no real difference between: Those who say we ought to abolish animal use,...
View ArticleThe Abolitionist ApproachES
Professor Gary Francione maintains a website called "the Abolitionist Approach". The definite article, "the", is very telling here. It implies there is only one abolitionist approach: his. Others...
View ArticleAddendum to Earlier Post Regarding Great Ape Project
On June 10, 2008, I parried Francione's thrusts against the Great Ape Project. Today I added the following (plus a few minor addendums elsewhere needed for continuity, that are not featured in the...
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