David Olivier
David Olivier Whittier (born David Olivier; 11 March 1956) is an Anglo-French antispeciesist activist, writer, and philosopher. He was a founder of the French journal Cahiers antispécistes ("Antispeciesist Notebooks"), the annual event Veggie Pride, and the annual meeting Les Estivales de la question animale ("The Summers of the Animal Question"). He coined the term "veggiephobia" and has written on utilitarian, sentience-based, and antinaturalist ethics.
Born in London, Olivier moved to France in 1967. His early activism involved ecology, anarchism, anti-sexism, and anti-racism, before he became involved in animal rights in the mid-1980s. He studied physics at the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud and the University of Lyon 1, and worked as a computer programmer at the University of Lyon until his retirement in 2018.
Olivier has been described as one of the founding figures of the French antispeciesist movement. He translated works by Peter Singer and other English-language animal ethics writers into French, and influenced activists including Brigitte Gothière and Sébastien Arsac, later co-founders of L214. His writing has also addressed wild animal suffering, criticism of environmentalism, and the political framing of animal advocacy.
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