The Unofficial Gary Francione Website
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.
Update as of Sept. 4, 2007
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.
- Gary L. Francione on the O'Reilly Radio Factor — August, 2007
- "We are all Michael Vick" on Michael Smerconish — August, 2007
- Gary Francione and Rae Sikora on Animal Voices — July, 2007
- Gary Francione returns to Vegan Freak Radio, Part 1 — January, 2007
- Gary Francione returns to Vegan Freak Radio, Part 2 — February, 2007
- Interview on VegCast, the Vegetarian Podcast — Janunary 2007
- Vegan Freak Podcast — November 2006
- “Animal Rights: The Last Ten Years” (keynote address) — April, 2006
- The Kojo Nnamdi Show — May, 2001
- Interview on WHRW 90.5 FM in Binghamton, NY — November, 2003
- Interview on Walden's Pond, Part 1 — September, 2000
- Interview on Walden's Pond, Part 2 — September, 2000
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.
Update as of August 3, 2007
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.
Gary Francione appears on Animal Voices
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.
Update as of July 16, 2007
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.
New content as of July 4, 2007
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:
- “Animal
Logic” – main article provides some
biographical details, such as how he met his wife (Anna Charlton). Also discusses the evolution of his abolitionist philosophy of
animal rights.
- “Philosophical Differences” – sidebar
about Peter Singer and his differences with Gary Francione.
- “Video Killed the
Baboon Lab” – sidebar about a break-in at a Penn lab.
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.
Earlier updates:
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.