Thomas Lepeltier was born on 4 January 1967 and is a French independent scholar, essayist and science writer specializing in the history and philosophy of science and applied ethics, known in particular for his contributions to the field of animal law.
12 Facts About Thomas Lepeltier
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Thomas Lepeltier is the author of several philosophical works on animal ethics such as L'imposture intellectuelle des carnivores and of science history books including Darwin heretique and Univers paralleles.
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Thomas Lepeltier later discovered animal ethics and developed an interest in veganism after reading Charles Patterson's Eternal Treblinka.
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Thomas Lepeltier published La Revolution vegetarienne in 2013, in which he explores the history of slavery abolition and argues that the "struggle for veganism will eventually succeed as the struggle against human slavery did".
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Thomas Lepeltier became an Associate Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics in 2019.
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Thomas Lepeltier has been called upon to debate animal ethics several times on French television, radio and forums.
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Thomas Lepeltier is a regular contributor to the French popular science magazines La Recherche and Sciences Humaines and is an editor of and writer for the French-language antispeciesist journal L'Amorce.
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Thomas Lepeltier's philosophy is antispeciesist; he considers that the species to which a living being belongs is not in itself a relevant criterion of moral consideration and that in particular, the mere fact of belonging to a particular species cannot in itself justify that an animal can be killed to, for example, serve as a meal.
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Particularly interested in the analysis of the speeches of French-speaking intellectuals, Thomas Lepeltier considers that "most say or even write anything to justify their consumption of meat, eggs and dairy products" and that "unfortunately, in a media world complacent, no one denounces this bad faith of professionals, this silence of politicians and this ineptitude of intellectuals".
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Thomas Lepeltier has sometimes been criticised for his condemnation of all breeding and his use of analogies with human slavery or The Holocaust.
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Thomas Lepeltier has distinguished himself within the French animalist movement, as a defender of interventionism in favor of reducing the suffering of wild animals.
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Thomas Lepeltier has engaged with the predation problem, arguing that predation is something that humans should work towards preventing.