http://https://youtu.be/J1BUcqZVCZo
In this Commentary, Prof. Gary L. Francione discusses the issue of non-vegan cats. He maintains that many cats can live healthy lives on a vegan diet. However, he addresses the question: what if there are cats who absolutely need to consume animal products?
http://https://youtu.be/A8_3reWxXA4
In this Commentary, Prof. Gary L. Francione discusses the issue of violence. He regards violence as inherently immoral and has discussed that issue often, including in the following essays:
http://www.abolitionistapproach.com/a…
http://www.abolitionistapproach.com/m…
http://https://youtu.be/U9g5bwjF7M8
Prof. Gary L. Francione’s first Commentary about vegetarianism as a “gateway” to veganism provoked continuing controversy, and in this Commentary he responds to questions he received and elaborates further on the topic.
http://https://youtu.be/CY9tYl5S-g0
Prof. Gary L. Francione refers to the delusional and confused way in which we think about animals from a moral and social standpoint as “moral schizophrenia.”
In this Commentary, he describes and discusses a situation that exemplifies moral schizophrenia, which involved dealing with a deer who had been hit by a car and the hunters who stopped to help the deer.
http://https://youtu.be/4VsVbzvvbCU
In this Commentary, Prof. Gary L. Francione explains why welfare reform and violence are not compatible with the abolitionist approach.
http://https://youtu.be/xqWhMTPtV38
In this Commentary, Prof. Gary L. Francione discusses why animal advocates must recognize that sexist campaigns trivialize the issue of animal rights and give people yet another reason to dismiss the animal rights issue.
http://https://youtu.be/_YrcABwidlw
In this Commentary, Prof. Francione reflects on the state of the vegan movement. The bad news: the large welfare corporations have done a great deal to marginalize veganism. The good news: we have seen the growth of the abolitionist movement, which views veganism as the moral baseline, rejects welfare reform and single-issue campaigns, and considers veganism as essential to any coherent theory of nonviolence.
http://https://youtu.be/6PjLw4MZY_c
In this Commentary, Prof. Gary L. Francione discusses with Gary Steiner, Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Bucknell University, about abolitionism and welfarism.
http://https://youtu.be/39Yu49-Cjw0
In this Commentary, Prof. Gary L. Francione discusses the virtual billboard campaign, which focuses on empowering advocates with a positive message that change is possible and that we have the responsibility to effect that change. It is time to reject the vegan bashing that has become the central focus of the welfarist movement.
http://https://youtu.be/8p5f_M9rlbU
On December 31, 2009, the BBC World Service broadcast the first segment of the two-part program One Planet: Animals and Us. This program was hosted by Victor Schonfeld, who did the highly influential The Animals Film in 1982. The Animals Film was among the first—if not the first—film to reveal how humans actually treated nonhumans. Animals and Us involves Schonfeld’s return to the topic 27 years later to ask whether anything has changed since 1982. The first segment dealt primarily with the use of animals for food and focused on factory farming.
In this Commentary, sociology instructor Roger Yates, NZ Podcast Producer Elizabeth Collins, and Prof. Gary L. Francione discuss and critique this first segment.