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Sunday, May 26th

  1. Reading Group, meeting 9 of 9

Sunday, June 2nd

  1. BVA Basics
  2. Advocacy practice meeting
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    • Start time: 03:00pm

    • The BVA is an abolitionist animal rights group. The Advocacy Practice meeting is the BVA’s ongoing, peer-driven meeting for learning about, talking about, and practicing abolitionist vegan education. The meetings are meant for aspiring, new and seasoned abolitionist animal rights advocates alike. The meetings have an open-door policy: absolutely anyone is welcome to come and participate.

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Sunday, July 14th

  1. BVA Basics
  2. Advocacy practice meeting
    • Calendar: BVA
    • Start time: 03:00pm

    • The BVA is an abolitionist animal rights group. The Advocacy Practice meeting is the BVA’s ongoing, peer-driven meeting for learning about, talking about, and practicing abolitionist vegan education. The meetings are meant for aspiring, new and seasoned abolitionist animal rights advocates alike. The meetings have an open-door policy: absolutely anyone is welcome to come and participate.

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Videos and Slideshows


Gary Francione Interview: Animal Use, Animal rights, and Veganism

Gary L. Francione is Distinguished Professor of Law and Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Scholar of Law and Philosophy at Rutgers University School of Law-Newark. More.


Gary Francione's Theory of Animal Rights

Professor Francione has developed a theory of animal rights that relies only on the sentience of nonhumans and that requires the abolition, and not merely the regulation, of animal exploitation. Professor Francione’s theory, which is developed in Introduction to Animal Rights: Your Child or the Dog? (Temple University Press, 2000), differs considerably from those proposed by others, most notably Peter Singer and Tom Regan.


Animal Rights vs. Animal Welfare

Professor Francione argues that there are profound theoretical and practical differences between animal rights and animal welfare. He is critical of what he calls “new welfarism,” or the position that incremental improvements in animal welfare will lead to the abolition of animal exploitation. These views are contained in Rain Without Thunder: The Ideology of the Animal Rights Movement (Temple University Press, 1996).


Animals as Property

Professor Francione argues that the property status of animals renders meaningless animal welfare laws that prohibit the infliction of “unnecessary” suffering and require the “humane” treatment of nonhumans. Professor Francione’s book, Animals, Property, and the Law (Temple University Press, 1995), provided the first legal analysis of the property status of animals and was described by Tom Regan as a “work of unquestionable historic importance.”