There is no 'need' for us to eat meat, dairy or eggs. Indeed, these foods are increasingly linked to various human diseases and animal agriculture is an environmental disaster for the planet.

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.