About veganica.org
Veganica.org is about empowering individuals who care about nonhuman animals to make lifestyle choices that, collectively, can end animal exploitation. As the name implies, we’re talking about a vegan diet here, and this site contains information and commentary about that powerful choice. If you believe that animals should not be exploited, then only by eliminating animal products—their flesh, their secretions, their reproductive vehicles—can you cease being part of the current cycle of exploitation.
This website embraces an abolitionist perspective about animal exploitation in our society. It’s not good enough to give them bigger cages or a chance to roam about before their lives are taken. Doing less harm is obviously better than doing more harm, but it does not end exploitation or speciesism, and it is still morally unacceptable.
Animals have interests. They are subjectively conscious. They are sentient. They can suffer. We may be unable to know exactly what their lives mean to them, but that does not mean that their lives are meaningless, and it does not mean that the only value they have is the value we assign to them as property.
Animals are not property:
They are not food.
They are not fabric.
They are not test tubes.
They are not entertainment.
Let’s get serious about creating a better world. By going vegan, you become a center for change, and you join many other conscientious and compassionate people who desire peace, nonviolence, and an end to the property status of animals.
Veganism is a revolution in the heart. Become a nonviolent revolutionary and a center for change by going vegan.
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*Special thanks and credit must go to Gary Francione for these ideas and their phrasing. Dr. Francione’s ideas came to life for me during a road trip one weekend in early March 2007 when I listened to his interviews on the Vegan Freak podcasts. Thank you, Dr. Francione, for your inspiring philosophy.