David Olivier

In La Révolution antispéciste (ed. PUF, 2018):

In 2002, Olivier organized the first meeting of Les Estivales de la question animal, an annual meeting of debate and reflection around the "animal question". This gathering of association leaders and theoreticians of the French-speaking animalist movement lead to the launch of the organization L214, the movement towards the legal abolition of meat and the creation of the French Animalist Party.

In Luc Ferry ou le rétablissement de l'ordre (tahin party ed., 2002):

In October 2001, in a bid to increase recognition of the refusal to eat animals, Olivier founded the first Veggie Pride in Paris, defining in his manifesto, the term "veggiephobia". Veggie Pride was intended to bring together people expressing their pride in refusing to eat animals (vegetarians and vegans) and denouncing the discrimination they feel they suffering their social life (community food for example) or in defense of their ideas. The event was exported to several French, European and North American cities, and organized its 18th Parisian event in 2018.

In Espèces et Éthique - Darwin: une (r)évolution à venir (ed. Tahin party, 2001):

The concept of focusing the fight for animal rights around the ethical concept of antispeciesism lead Olivier, in 1989, soon joined by Françoise Blanchon and Yves Bonnardel, to found the journal Cahiers antispécistes. The journal remained, for a long period, the essential media supporting the antispeciesist movement in France. Oliver himself authored many of the journal's articles, in addition to creating French translations of the texts of Peter Singer, Tom Regan, Paola Cavalieri, James Rachels and Steve F. Sapontzis. He and the other co-founders of the journal were a decisive influence on Sébastien Arsac and Brigitte Gothière, future founders of the animal protection organization L214. Olivier left the editorial staff of Cahiers antispécistes in 2004, after the publication of issue 23.

Author of a leaflet initially distributed in Lyonnais libertarian circles from 1985, Olivier is considered one of the founding figures of the French antispeciesist movement. His meeting with Yves Bonnardel in 1986, made him aware of the existence of an active animal liberation movement in the English-speaking world. With Bonnardel, Françoise Blanchon, also present in Lyon squat circles, and two other activists, he produced the pamphlet Nous ne mangeons pas de viande pour ne pas tuer d'animaux (transl. We don't eat meat so we don't kill animals ). Being bilingual, Olivier was able to create some of the first translations of Peter Singer's works into French; introducing Singer to his fellow activists.

David Olivier (born 11 March 1956) is a French and British philosopher and antispeciesist activist. He is founder of the French journal Cahiers antispécistes (transl. Antispeciesist Notebooks ), the annual event Veggie Pride and of the annual meeting Les Estivales de la question animal (transl. The Summers of the Animal Question ). Olivier is also the creator of the term "veggiephobia" and of numerous articles and conferences. He is an advocate of utilitarian and antinatauralist ethics, and defines himself politically as a progressive.

In 1956, Olivier was born in London, to a French-teaching father and an American painter mother. From childhood, he objected to the killing of animals for consumption. In adolescence, he was drawn to ecology, then to anarchist movements; devoting himself mainly to anti-sexist and anti-racist struggles. In Lyon, he worked for the French family planning and gay liberation movements. His focus on the importance of the "animal question" grew from the mid-1980s, as he moved away from anarchist and Marxist intellectual influences.