Most people care about animals but only a tiny fraction are vegan. The rest often think of
veganism as an extreme position. They certainly do not believe that they have a moral
obligation to become vegan. Gary L. Francione--the leading and most provocative scholar of
animal rights theory and law--demonstrates that veganism is a moral imperative and a matter of
justice. He shows that there is a contradiction in thinking that animals matter morally if one
is also not vegan and he explains why this belief should logically lead all who hold it to
veganism. Francione dismantles the conventional wisdom that it is acceptable to use and kill
animals as long as we do so humanely. He argues that if animals matter morally they must have
the right not to be used as property. That means that we cannot eat them wear them use them
or otherwise treat them as resources or commodities.
