Valéry Giroux

Sonntag, 24. März 1974

Valéry Giroux (born 24 March 1974) is a Canadian philosopher, lawyer and animal rights activist from Quebec. She is an associate professor at the Université de Montréal Faculty of Law and at the Department of Philosophy and Applied Ethics at the Université de Sherbrooke. Giroux is also coordinator for the Centre de recherche en éthique ("Ethics Research Center") and a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. She is the author of the book Contre l'exploitation animale ("Against Animal Exploitation") and the co-author, with Renan Larue, of the book Le Véganisme ("Veganism") in the PUF editorial collection "Que sais-je?" ("What do I know?) and a book in the same collection, L'antispécisme ("Antispeciesism"). Giroux is regularly invited to speak to the media on issues relating to animal