It's All About Food: Élise Desaulniers: The Lives We Ignore

Élise Desaulniers is an author, consultant and independent researcher based in Montréal. From 2017 to 2022, she was Executive Director of the Montreal SPCA. She has published several essays on food ethics and animal rights — including Je mange avec ma tête, Vache à lait (translated into English as Cash Cow) and Le défi végane 21 jours — translated into several languages. In 2015, she received Quebec’s Grand Prix du journalisme indépendant in the Opinion category for an essay on feminism and antispeciesism. In 2022, she became an anonymous (non-directed) kidney donor and has since been actively involved in advocating for organ donation. She serves on the board of directors of the Kidney Foundation of Canada (Quebec branch) and on the Advanced Donation Steering Committee of Canadian Blood Services. She is an editor at L’Amorce and writes regularly on Substack. Her Wikipedia entry covers part of her work. Together with Éline Bonin (Patate & Cornichon), she is co-spokesperson of the Festival végane de Montréal. The event will take place on October 17 and 18, 2026.   Read the article by Élise Desaulniers on Substack: Xenotransplantation and the Animal Question