The same goes for prisoners' rights cases. While prisons readily provide kosher meals for Jewish inmates, they rarely provide meatless meals for Rastafarians, who practice a religion that promotes vegetarianism, he noted. Francione points out 8 billion animals are killed each year for food in the United States. He will not eat any animal-related products. The clinic trains students on such law-related skills like case and statutory analysis, and litigation techniques and strategies.
Clinic students view it as a great way to learn lawyering skills.
One participating student, Ruth A. Campo, also is a practicing physician and already does work with animal rights and medicine. She is reviewing medical school curricuulum and has organized other doctors to protest the use of animals in experiments. It's important because it's fighting for the rights of the disenfranchised.