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  • When USDA Says No: Understanding the National Appeals Division Appeal Process
    by Dimple Dang on August 14, 2026 at 8:59 pm

    By Sam Ellis, Esq. When USDA says no, an unfavorable agency decision does not necessarily mean the matter is over. In “When USDA Says No: Understanding the National Appeals Division Appeal Process,” Sam Ellis, Esq., of Rincker Law, PLLC, explains what farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural program participants should know about challenging certain adverse USDA decisions through the National Appeals ... Read More The post When USDA Says No: Understanding the National Appeals Division Appeal Process appeared first on Rincker Law, PLLC.

  • Can an LLC Protect the Family Farm From a Divorce? What Illinois Farm Owners Should Know
    by Dimple Dang on August 14, 2026 at 4:56 pm

    Can an LLC Protect the Family Farm From a Divorce? What Illinois Farm Owners Should Know is an important question for farm families who have spent years or generations building agricultural businesses and accumulating farmland, equipment, livestock, and other valuable assets. An LLC can be a useful part of a farm’s legal and succession structure, but simply placing a family ... Read More The post Can an LLC Protect the Family Farm From a Divorce? What Illinois Farm Owners Should Know appeared first on Rincker Law, PLLC.

  • Starting a Business With a Friend or Family Member in Illinois? Put These Agreements in Writing First
    by Dimple Dang on August 14, 2026 at 4:41 pm

    Starting a Business With a Friend or Family Member in Illinois? Put These Agreements in Writing First may not sound like the most exciting advice when two people are enthusiastic about launching a new company. But some of the hardest business disputes begin with people who trusted each other enough to believe they did not need formal agreements. Friends, siblings, ... Read More The post Starting a Business With a Friend or Family Member in Illinois? Put These Agreements in Writing First appeared first on Rincker Law, PLLC.

  • 2027 Illinois Farm Leases: What Landowners and Farmers Should Negotiate Before Harvest Ends
    by Dimple Dang on August 13, 2026 at 2:26 pm

    2027 Illinois Farm Leases: What Landowners and Farmers Should Negotiate Before Harvest Ends is a conversation many Illinois farmers and farmland owners should be having before the combines are parked for the season. Farm lease discussions often happen in the fall, but waiting until the last minute can leave both sides rushing through important decisions involving rent, expenses, improvements, conservation ... Read More The post 2027 Illinois Farm Leases: What Landowners and Farmers Should Negotiate Before Harvest Ends appeared first on Rincker Law, PLLC.

  • August Is National Make-a-Will Month: 7 Estate Planning Documents Illinois Families Should Review
    by Dimple Dang on August 13, 2026 at 2:09 pm

    August Is National Make-a-Will Month: 7 Estate Planning Documents Illinois Families Should Review is a timely reminder that estate planning is about more than deciding who receives your property after you die. A good estate plan can also address who may handle your finances if you become incapacitated, who can make health care decisions for you, and how a family ... Read More The post August Is National Make-a-Will Month: 7 Estate Planning Documents Illinois Families Should Review appeared first on Rincker Law, PLLC.

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Animal Rights The Abolitionist Approach ...and Abolition Means Veganism!

  • The Trans Rights Issue: Equality Claims and Belief Claims
    by Gary L. Francione on August 2, 2023 at 5:16 pm

    Note: Principle Five of the Abolitionist Approach to Animal Rights maintains human rights and nonhuman rights are inextricably intertwined and that: Abolitionists reject all forms of human discrimination, including racism, sexism, heterosexism, ageism, ableism, and classism—just as they reject speciesism. Many Abolitionists have asked me about what the Abolitionist position is about transphobia. The answer Related posts: Woke Animal Rights Means No Animal Rights, Part 2: Wokeabulary Human Rights and Animal Rights: Perfect Together Veganism: It’s Not Just a Animal Rights Issue You Can’t Make This Stuff Up: Vegan Society “Ambassador” Claims That Promoting Veganism as a Moral Baseline “Damages” Animals Thought of the Day: Human Rights and Animal Rights–Inextricably Intertwined

  • ESSAY ON VEGAN PHILOSOPHY PUBLISHED IN THINK
    by Gary L. Francione on July 20, 2023 at 2:22 pm

    My essay, Are You a Vegan or Are you an Extremist?, published in Think (Cambridge University Press/The Royal Institute of Philosophy) is now available online. Related posts: “Philosophy Bites” Audio Interview on Abolition Published My Interview On Philosophy Bites Vegan Philosophy in Spain! Guest Essay: Dear Vegan Feminists, Where Are You? An Open Letter Essay on Domestication and Pet Ownership

  • Animal Advocacy and Effective Altruism: A Review of ‘The Good It Promises, The Harm It Does’
    by Gary L. Francione on July 20, 2023 at 2:07 pm

    By Prof. Gary Francione Effective Altruism (EA) maintains that those of us who are more affluent should give more to solve the problems of the world, and we should give to the organisations and individuals who are effective at solving those problems. There are a not inconsiderable number of criticisms that can be and have Related posts: Effective Animal Rights Advocacy—in Three Easy Steps Upcoming Abolitionist Approach Podcast on Effective Animal Rights Advocacy: A Preview The Death of Activism and the Rise of Branding Spectacle in Animal Advocacy Violent Imagery in Animal Advocacy Animal Rights: Marginalized By The “Animal Movement”

  • Is Eating Plants as Morally Objectionable as Eating Animals?
    by Gary L. Francione on January 19, 2023 at 7:34 pm

    On my Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram pages, I often receive comments to the effect that we cannot morally distinguish animal foods from plant foods. Some comments are made by those who maintain that plants are sentient and, therefore, are not morally different from sentient nonhumans. This argument, which ranks up there with “But Hitler was a vegetarian,” is tiresome, pathetic, and Related posts: A Frequently Asked Question: What About Plants? Eating Animals: Our “Choice”? “Happy Meat:” Making Humans Feel Better About Eating Animals Is the Domestication of Animals Morally Justifiable? The Real Reason For Interest in Plant Sentience Has Nothing to Do With Plants

  • Why I Did Not Sign the Montreal Declaration on Animal Exploitation
    by Gary L. Francione on October 4, 2022 at 12:48 pm

    I was invited on several occasions to sign the Montreal Declaration on Animal Exploitation. I appreciate that the drafters asked me to sign but, for the following reasons, I am unable to do so. First, the Declaration Does Not Reject All Animal Use What is the end — the ultimate goal — envisaged by the Declaration? The Declaration purports to seek Related posts: Enabling Animal Exploitation The Problem: “Animal Advocates” Who Promote Animal Exploitation Welfare Reform Campaigns, Single-Issue Campaigns, and Animal Exploitation: Perfect Together Blessing Exploitation Imagine If There Were a Real “Animal Rights” Movement