...eating animals involves an intentional decision to participate in the suffering and death of nonhumans where there is no plausible moral justification. Gary L. Francione More Quotes by Gary L. Francione More Quotes From Gary L. Francione I find it very annoying that so many animal advocates talk about the difficulty of being vegan. Many animal advocates are inclined to make the issue their suffering and not the animals' suffering, and I suppose that accounts for part of the reason that veganism is portrayed as such a "sacrifice." And many animal advocates are not vegans, or are "flexible vegans," which means that they do not observe veganism at all or not consistently, and emphasizing the supposed difficulty of veganism is part of justifying their own behavior. Gary L. Francione sacrifice animal mean Most of the time, those who use animals in experiments justify that use by pointing to alleged benefits to human and animal health and the supposed necessity of using animals to obtain those benefits. Gary L. Francione animals health time animal