Valéry Giroux
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Biography
Valéry Giroux is a Canadian philosopher, lawyer and animal rights activist from Quebec. She is an adjunct professor at the Université de Montréal Faculty of Law, associate director for the Centre de recherche en éthique ("Ethics Research Center"), a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, and an author and speaker on animal ethics issues and veganism, with a notable focus on the topic of antispeciesism through her co-editorship of the antispeciesist journal L'Amorce. Her philosophy defends equal moral consideration for all sentient beings, rejects the view that human use of non-human animals is morally permissible, and advocates an individual right to freedom for all sentient beings, regardless of species, with a focus on negative or republican freedom rather than positive freedom.
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Le Temps des bêtes is a sociological, philosophical, and poetic exploration of cruelty and compassion in the age of neoliberalism.
Le Temps des bêtes : un film de cruauté et de compassion
Through discussions with actors and thinkers of animal ethics, Homo Herbivorus explores our relationship to the consumption of products derived from animal exploitation.
Homo Herbivorus
By visiting three animal shelters and learning about their stories, we discover that animals are not so different from us: intelligent, sensitive, supportive, stubborn, and even deceitful, etc. However, we treat them as inferior and, to satisfy our needs, we force them to live lives of misery. What if we imagined another way of living with animals?