Veganism is an act of nonviolent defiance. It is our statement that we reject the notion that animals are things and that we regard sentient nonhumans as moral persons with the fundamental moral right not to be treated as the property or resources of 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.