"Because animals are property, we consider as "humane treatment" that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans."

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Source : Gary L. Francione (2009). “Animals as Persons: Essays on the Abolition of Animal Exploitation”, p.69, Columbia University Press

Gary L. Francione

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