This website is dedicated to examining and promoting the animal rights philosophy of Gary L. Francione. He is not associated with this site. Professor Francione's official site (including his blog) is at abolitionistapproach.com. His faculty page at Rutgers Law School is here.
I've transcribed three interviews with Gary Francione. It was worth the effort, but I'm burned-out on it, and I don't have much free time right now, anyway. I'm looking for volunteers to transcribe the following audio shows that featured Gary Francione. If you can help, then contact me.
If you are interested in volunteering, you may want to consider using a free software tool called Express Scribe. It works really well! I wouldn't have had the patience to do the transcriptions without it.
Great news! Through the kindness of two volunteers, named Christopher T. Walker and Daphne Haller, we now have a transcript of the (infamous) debate between Gary Francione and Erik Marcus. Thanks, Christopher and Daphne! If anyone else is interested in transcribing additional audio interviews, please contact me. Creating transcripts is important, because doing so widens the potential audience for the shows.
From the Animal Voices website:
Should insects have rights? What about plants? Don't they feel pain, too? Isn't meat-eating natural? What about religious texts that justify using and eating animals? Isn't veganism classist, racist, Euro-centric, and culturally-insensitive? Why bother advocating for animals when there's so much human suffering? Why be vegan when humanely-produced meat and dairy is now available?
If you've ever been confronted with concerns like these, or wonder about them yourself, tune in to hear responses from two respected vegans and movement leaders. Structured around a set of commonly-asked questions about veganism and animal rights, tomorrow's show features Rae Sikora and Gary Francione, who will answer the same questions, each informed by decades of experience and their own unique perspective.
For those of us who have ever been stumped, baffled, and otherwise left with a loss for words, this episode of Animal Voices should offer some excellent ideas for how to approach the issues.
See www.animalvoices.ca/shows/hot_seat for more information.
Professor Francione has re-organized and re-designed his website. The new address is abolitionistapproach.com. Actually, a volunteer by the name of Randy Sandberg did all the coding. Check it out! The new site is excellent.
I just found this excellent article while I was actually Googling for something else. I don't know how I missed it before, but the Philaldelphia City Paper had a cover story (September 7–14, 2000) about Gary Francione. The story was divided into a main article and two side-bars:
Here's a photograph from the main article:
A student named Claire has posted some interesting reviews of books by Gary Francione. Claire is designing her own college major on animal studies.
It turns out that Professor Francione's birthday was on May 29. He turned 53 this year (he was born in 1954). To celebrate his birthday, consider making a donation to the Peaceful Prairie Sanctuary in Colorado. Mary Martin, Ph.D. will match donations up to a total of $1,000.
Check out the top of the "Articles" page. I've added links to several web-based forums that feature some interesting discussions in which Gary Francione participated. In general, he seems to post fairly often on the Vegan Freak Forum. Unfortunately, you need to be registered with the forum in order to read many (but not all) of the threads.
Last update: September 23, 2007
Gary Francione is professor of law and Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Distinguished Scholar of Law and Philosophy at Rutgers University School of Law in New Jersey.