Some animal defenders are committed to complete abstinence from animal products. However the strongest arguments for adopting veganism only seem to require that one avoid using animal products, where use or procurement of these products will harm sentient animals. As such, there is seemingly a gap between our intuition and our argument. In this article I attempt to defend the more comprehensive claim that we have a moral reason to avoid using animal products, regardless of the method of procurement. I argue that animal bodies give rise to properties which grant sentient animals’ moral status and in light of this, animal bodies possess final value in themselves. This final value gives us a moral reason not to commodify animal bodies, which means we have a defeasible reason to abstain from using animal products in almost all circumstances.

一些动物保护者承诺完全戒除动物产品。然而，采用素食主义的最有力论据似乎只要求避免使用动物产品，因为使用或采购这些产品会伤害有知觉的动物。因此，我们的直觉和我们的论点之间似乎存在差距。在这篇文章中，我试图为更全面的主张辩护，即我们有道德理由避免使用动物产品，无论采购方法如何。我认为动物身体会产生赋予有知觉动物道德地位的属性，因此，动物身体本身具有最终价值。这个最终价值给了我们一个不将动物身体商品化的道德理由，这意味着我们有一个不可行的理由在几乎所有情况下都避免使用动物产品。