Carl Saucier-Bouffard
Carl, an Associate Fellow of the Oxford Center for Animal Ethics, is the co-founder of the organisation called Oxford Movement for the Animal Liberties (OXMAL). Along with Christopher Nathan, he has launched campaigns aimed at informing the general public and political representatives about the unethical practices carried in factory farms. They have been collaborating with the Gorilla Foundation, Vegan Outreach, and the Association Végétarienne de Montréal.
Carl graduated with a BA (First Class Honours) in Political Science from McGill University in 2004. He won a British Chevening scholarship to the University of Oxford gaining an MPhil in Political Theory in 2007. His MPhil dissertation examined the different modes of political communication used by Peter Singer and Martin Luther King, Jr. in delineating the boundaries of the moral community. He subsequently completed a research internship at the Martin Luther King Jr., Research and Education Institute at Stanford University in 2008, where he conducted research and analysis for one of Professor Clayborne Carson’s scholarly articles to be published in The American Historical Review, and contributed to the editorial process of the forthcoming volume VII of The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. Carl is member of Stanford University’s Gandhi-King Community for Global Peace with Social Justice in a Sustainable Environment.
Carl has co-authored an article ‘The Moral Debate Surrounding the Spanish Initiative to Grant Fundamental Rights to Great Apes’, which is to be published in the Gorilla Journal in the Spring of 2009. His main research interests are the moral status of non-human animals, and the social movements working towards the expansion of our sphere of moral consideration, including the animal rights movement.
Carl has been actively involved in this movement for numerous years. An ethical vegan, he has given talks on animal ethics at the University of Oxford, McGill University and at many conferences aimed at the general public. During his stint as a House of Commons researcher in the United Kingdom in 2004, he worked on behalf of Mrs Julie Morgan MP on an ultimately successful bill making it illegal to hunt with hounds. Carl has also interviewed many well-known personalities about animal rights, including Peter Singer, Jane Goodall, Francine Patterson, Andrew Linzey, Gilles Duceppe, and Robin Cook.
Carl has also initiated successful campaigns aimed at minimizing suffering among the homeless, the poor, and the sick.
He teaches courses in Philosophy, Animal Ethics, and other subjects in Humanities, at Collège de l’Outaouais, in Gatineau, Canada.
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