Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.

Francione is the author or co-author of several books about animal rights including The Animal Rights Debate: Abolition or Regulation? (2010 with Robert Garner) Animals as Persons (2008) Rain Without Thunder: The Ideology of the Animal Rights Movement (1996) and Animals Property and the Law (1995). He is the DistinguiGary L. Francioned Professor of Law and Nicholas deB.