Think-tanks
Co-founder and scientific board member, UPF-Centre for Animal Ethics (upf.edu/cae)
Politics
2021-2025. Chairman of the Animal Rights & Welfare Committee, Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya.
21-22/10/2025. Invited expert. 5th Conference on Animal Rights, Spanish Ministry of Social Rights. Presentation: “Animals as subjects of justice: grounds and public policy” [Los animals como sujetos de justiica: fundamentos y políticas públicas].
07/12/2021. Invited expert. Committee on Constitutional Principles of the Chilean Constitutional Convention. Presentation arguing that the new constitution should include a duty to protect the rights and well-being of sentient animals.
Books
2022. “Epílogo. La discusión sobre ética y animales posterior a Henry Salt” [Epilogue. The discussion on animals and ethics after Henry Salt]. In Salt, Henry, Una defensa del vegetarianismo. Translation by Carlos Tuñón. Madrid: Catarata.
Newspaper articles
“PPA: El problema és la ramaderia.” [African swine fever virus: animal farming is the problem], co-authored with Núria Almiron, Ara, 11/12/2025
“Els correbous i l’ànima de la terra.” [Bullruns and the land’s soul], Ara, 20/10/2023
“El torero polític i la guerra cultural.” [The bullfighting politician and the culture wars], Ara, 16/06/2023
“Conversa: Ferran Sáez i Eze Páez tenen un debat sobre els drets dels animals.” [Dialogue: Ferran Sáez and Eze Páez discuss animal rights], for the Catalan magazine Valors. Filosofia de l’actualitat, 03/2023;
“Henry Salt y la ética animal.” [Henry Salt and animal ethics], for the Spanish newspaper eldiario.es, 17/04/2022;
“La república i els animals. L’extensió de la llibertat republicana als sintients no humans” [The republic and animals. Extending republican freedom to nonhuman sentients]. Animal Ethics Review 2, no. 1 (May 2022): 28-43
“El nuevo régimen jurídico de los animales: sintientes, pero no libres.” [The new legal regime on animals: sentient, but not free” Revista Contexto y Acción, 07/01/2022
“Los jabalíes: hacia un control poblacional ético.” [Wild boars: towards an ethical population control], Revista Contexto y Acción, 13/10/2021
“La llibertat civil dels animals no humans: una aproximació liberal.” [Civil freedom for nonhuman animals: a liberal approach] Institut Ostrom, 18/07/2021
“Cap a la ciutadania per als animals” [Towards animal citizenship], for the UPF Alumni blog, 17/05/2021;
“Experimentación con animales: por qué el sistema actual es injusto y qué hacer al respecto” [Animal testing: why the current system is unjust and what to do about it], for the on-line magazine Revista Contexto y Acción, 19/04/2021;
“Un clam per la compassió” [A cry for compassion], for the on-line newspaper Nació Digital, 30/10/2020;
“Acabemos con la ganadería y la acuicultura industriales” [Let us end factory farming and aquaculture], co-authored with J.J. Moreso, P. Magaña and J.L. Martí, for the public policy site Agenda Pública of the newspaper El País, 23/10/2020;
“Eutanàsia: Mais liberdade para os mais vulneráveis” [Euthanasia: more freedom for the most vulnerable individuals], for the newspaper Público, 28/02/2020.
“Eutanasia, un instrumento para la libertad” [Euthanasia, an instrument of freedom], for the on-line magazine Revista Contexto y Acción, 26/02/2020;
“Anatomía ideológica del movimiento animalista” [Ideological anatomy of the animal advocacy movement], for the on-line magazine Revista Contexto y Acción, 03/10/2019;
“La defensa de los animales: una causa común” [The defence of animals: A common cause], for the Spanish newspaper eldiario.es, 11/06/2019;
“La igualtat moral dels animals” [The moral equality of animals], for the Catalan newspaper Ara, 03/02/2019
“Especismo, justicia e izquierda. Crítica a Daniel Bernabé” [Speciesism, justice and the left. A critique of Daniel Bernabé], for the Spanish newspaper eldiario.es, 09/10/2018;
“El bienestar es lo que importa” [Well-being is what matters], for the Spanish newspaper eldiario.es, 09/01/2018;
“No sólo arde el lince: incendios y víctimas no humanas” [Not only lynxes burn: wildfires and nonhuman victims], with Catia Faria for the Spanish newspaper eldiario.es, 29/09/2017;
“Posición política: antiespecista” [Political position: antispeciesist], for the Spanish newspaper eldiario.es, 30/06/2017;
“¿Por qué es moralmente incorrecto matar animales?” [Why is it morally wrong to kill animals?], for the Spanish-Mexican blog Mirada Animal, 26/04/2017;
“¿Es justificable la experimentación animal?” [Is it justified to experiment on animals?], for the Spanish newspaper eldiario.es, 17/01/2017;
“Vida humana y libertad de la mujer” [Human life and women’s freedom], for the Spanish newspaper El País, 31/08/2013.
Podcast, radio, and TV appearances
6 April 2026, Knowing Animals Podcast: Ep. 248 – Sentientist Political Liberalism. Discussion of my paper on sentientist political liberalism. Hosted by Josh Milburn (Loughborough University, UK)
25 March 2026, I tu què faries? (TV programme, 2Cat, Spain). Debate on the ethics of killing animals for food.
18 July 2025, La sobretaula de la Font (Podcast, Ep. 64). Longform conversation about animal rights.
20 March 2023, La Conversa a Valors en Alça (Mataró Ràdio, Spain). Discussion about animal rights;
16 November 2022, El Viaje de Penélope (Círculo Radio, Spain). Debate about our moral and political obligations towards liminal animals.
18 November 2021, Estudios Críticos Animales Podcast, Ep. 03. Discussion about my work.
25 May 2021, Herbivorize Predators (Podcast, Ep. 01), Discussion on paradise engineering.
24 December 2018, Knowing Animals Podcast, Ep. 98, Discussion of my paper on rule-consequentialism and animals. Hosted by Dr Siobhan O’Sullivan (University of South Wales, Australia)
23 September 2018, La Osa Perdida Podcast, Ep. 17, interview on the importance of animal wellfare.
February 2018, Vida Verda (Radio 4, Spain), Interview about the UPF-Centre for Animal Ethics and its handbook on alternatives to vivisection.
Selected talks for the general public
23 February 2023, Ateneu Barcelonès (Barcelona, Spain), Antiespecisme i ètica: els drets dels animals no-humans [Antispeciesism and ethics: nonhuman animal rights], Tertúlia Cafè Continental
25 February 2021, Centre Culturel Catalain de Montréal (Montréal, Canada), Drets dels animals a Catalunya. On som i on podem arribar [Animal rights in Catalonia. Where are we are and where can arrive?]
20 May 2020, Centre Cívic Sarrià (Barcelona, Spain), Ètica i animals. Una reflexió filosòfica [Animals and Ethics: A philosophical reflection]
7 April 2020, Jovent Republicà de Sant Andreu (Barcelona, Spain), Reducció de la carn. Un benefici per l’ecosistema?” [Reducing meat consumption. A benefit for ecosystems?]
5 June 2019, Ateneu Barcelonès (Barcelona),“Toros: perquè hi estem en contra. Un debat ètic.” [Bullfighting: why we are against. An ethical debate]
21 April 2019, 16a Trobada d’Estudiants dels Països Catalans (Cervera, Spain),“Marxisme i antiespecisme” [Marxism and antispeciesism]
10 April 2019, University of Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain), “Les raons per defensar els animals” [Our reasons to help animals]. Presentation at the 6th Environmental Forum
23 February 2019, Instituto Juan de Mariana (Madrid, Spain), “El liberalismo y la cuestión animal” [Liberalism and the animal question]
20 January 2019, Pompeu Fabra University (Spain), “Ètica per a no humans. Les raons per defensar els animals” [Ethics for nonhumans. Our reasons to defend animals]. I Semana Animal, Estudiantes por la Lucha Animalista
16 January 2019, Santiago de Chile (Chile), Meeting with animal advocates about wild animal suffering and our duty to assist them.
20 October 2018, Vegan Fest (Alicante, Spain), Talk about antispeciesism as a political position and a social movement.