• Gary Francione's work (Introduction to Animal Rights, et al.) is based on the premise that if non-human animals are considered to be property then any rights that they may be granted would be directly undermined by that property status.
    He points out that a call to equally consider the interests of your property against your own interests is absurd.
    So without the basic right not to be treated as the property of humans, non-human animals can have no rights whatsoever.
    • Non-human animals should not have a property status
    • Veganism is the moral baseline of Animal Rights