by Gary L. Francione

About the author: Gary L. Francione is Professor of Law and Katzenbach Scholar of Law and Philosophy at Rutgers University Law School in New Jersey, and is codirector of the Rutgers Animal Rights Law Center. He is the author of Animals, Property, and the Law; Rain Without Thunder: The Ideology of the Animal Rights Movement; and the forthcoming Introduction to Animal Rights: Your Child or the Dog" all published by Temple University Press.

In 1996, I had the opportunity to address students at Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia. The occasion was a debate between me and a professor from the University of Pennsylvania Veterinary School, Adrian Morrison. Morrison has used cats in rather grisly experiments and, over the years, he has been the object of numerous protests by animal rights advocates. I was arguing against...