This amazing interview with Gary Francione about the ownership of animals.
Gary 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 was the first academic to teach it in an American law school. His work has focused on three issues: the property status of animals, the differences between animal rights and animal welfare, and a theory of animal rights based on sentience alone, rather than on any other cognitive characteristics.
He is a pioneer of the abolitionist theory of animal rights, arguing that animal welfare regulation is theoretically and practically unsound, serving only to prolong the status of animals as property by making the public feel comfortable about using them. He argues that non-human animals require only one right, the right not to be regarded as property, and that ethical veganism – the rejection of the use of animal products – is the moral baseline of the animal rights movement. He rejects all forms of violence, arguing that the animal rights movement is the logical progression of the peace movement, seeking to take it one step further by ending conflict between human and non-human animals, and by treating animals as ends in themselves.
Anonymous the international network of activist and hacktivist have been called on by animal lovers all over the world, Anonymous recently made an announcement about their latest pledge to bring justice to safari clubs, canned hunting operators and trophy hunting. In an anonymous style video, anonymous listed the Safari Clubs International and the Dallas branch, Dallas Safari Club as targets for this operation.
They also listed canned hunting industry and individual trophy hunters who may be targets of their next planned strike to bring justice for endangered animals.
As if you needed a excuse to go vegan, after a week of news on cancer causing meats, the latest news is that Kentucky fried chicken has been caught with a growing number of mutated chickens.
KFC’s largest chicken supplier in Springdale, Arkansas was reportedly raided by the FDA on Monday due to suspicions of mass mutations taking place in their chickens. It has been no secret that KFC plumps up their chickens with the use of steroids and hormones in order to create a bigger yield to supply their restaurants around the world. However, the accusations of mutated chickens has been streaming across the Internet for years commonly referred to as a “conspiracy theory.”
Now, with the FDA raid, those accusations are no longer “theories,” but proven fact. In the photos just released, you can see just how “mutated” these chickens have become due to their scientific experiments. Experiments that they were hoping would yield them twice the chicken legs for half the price. Getting four legs per chicken, was estimated to bring them an additional $12.5 million in annual revenue. But now, KFC is looking at fines half that amount. If convicted, they can face fines of $7 million, restaurant closures, and possible lawsuits from people whose health may have been affected.
