Yves Bonnardel

Bonnardel co-founded Veggie Pride in 2001. He participates in the organization each year of the World Day for the Abolition of Meat, the World Day for the End of Fishing and the World Day for the End of Speciesism. Bonnardel is an editor of the antispeciesist French-language journal L'Amorce ("The Primer").

In 1997, he co-wrote and distributed the Manifesto for the Abolition of International Apartheid with David Olivier.

In May 1989, along with David Olivier and three other activists, he published Nous ne mangeons pas de viande pour ne pas tuer d'animaux ("We don't eat meat so we don't kill animals"), in response to discussions of vegetarianism in France. With David Olivier and Françoise Blanchon, in 1991, he founded the antispeciesist journal Cahiers antispécistes lyonnais (later renamed to Cahiers antispécistes). He was also one of the journal's editors, before leaving at some point during the 1990s.

Yves Bonnardel (born 1967) is a French philosopher, essayist and editor, libertarian, egalitarian and antispeciesist activist. He is one of the founding members of the French-language journal Cahiers antispécistes ("Antispeciesist Notebooks") and of the events Veggie Pride, Les Estivales de la question animale ("The Summers of the Animal Question") and the march to close all slaughterhouses.

Bonnardel was born in 1967, in a small town south of Lyon. His father was a secondary school teacher, who was highly involved in the French Maoist movement. He became a vegetarian at the age of 13. His father's choice of political engagement inspired Bonnardel to take a different path, turning to individualist anarchism and leaving school early with the intention to live in a community and train, before getting involved in activist causes. He became an activist against adult supremacy, before also taking up antispeciesism as a cause.