we the undersigned petition ...
Please ask Ingrid Newkirk and/or Peter Singer to debate Gary L. Francione

The work of Francione represents an abolitionist approach to animal rights. Both Singer and Newkirk are associated often and mistakenly with 'animal rights' in the public mind and media. We ask either or both them to agree to debate Francione in order to 1) help clarify the differences between their animal welfare position(s), which promotes the regulation of animal use and Francione's abolitionist position, which promotes the rights of animals not to be used as property; 2) confirm that rational ideas do not need a vacuum in order to be persuasive and that the animal advocacy movement is not a religion, but a vibrant community of thought; 3) to help to further a broader public understanding of the moral consideration that we owe nonhuman animals and 4) to help advocates to clarify their own strategic positions and objectives as well as to better align their tactical advocacy in the interest of making meaningful change for nonhuman animals.

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