We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.

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.