1. Yves Bonnardel was born on 1967 and is a French activist, philosopher, writer and editor.
16 Facts About Yves Bonnardel
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Yves Bonnardel was born in 1967 in a small town south of Lyon.
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Yves Bonnardel's father was a secondary school teacher who was highly involved in the French Maoist movement.
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Yves Bonnardel became a vegetarian at the age of 13.
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Yves Bonnardel became an activist against adult supremacy, before taking up antispeciesism as a cause.
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In May 1989, along with David Olivier and three other activists, Yves Bonnardel published Nous ne mangeons pas de viande pour ne pas tuer d'animaux, in response to discussions of vegetarianism in France.
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Yves Bonnardel was one of the journal's editors, before leaving at some point during the 1990s.
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Yves Bonnardel is an editor of the antispeciesist French-language journal L'Amorce.
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Yves Bonnardel is an antinaturalist and critical of the concept of nature, describing it as an "ideological tool", which places humans in a superior position of freedom, while other animals are seen as needing to obey natural cycles, such as the food chain.
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Yves Bonnardel argues that animals are seen as existing only to perform certain ecosystem functions, such as a rabbit being food for a wolf.
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Yves Bonnardel compares this with the religious concept of woman existing for the sake of man, or the slaves for their masters and argues that all individual animals have an interest in living.
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Yves Bonnardel is critical of the concept of a balance of nature, stating "[w]hat we call balance, or order, in practice, it's chaos, it's nonsense".
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Yves Bonnardel has discussed the predation problem, seeing it as an issue that we should work towards solving.
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Yves Bonnardel is critical of humanism, describing it as a form of elitism centred on white men, arguing that "[h]umanism is racism, patriarchy, the education of children, slaughterhouses".
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Yves Bonnardel is a hedonistic utilitarian who advocates placing sentient individuals at the centre of moral concern because they have desires, perceptions, emotions, and a will of their own; he argues that from this follows a moral axiom "[o]ne must not harm a sentient being".
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Yves Bonnardel was influenced by Peter Singer's Animal Liberation and is a supporter of Singer's conception of speciesism, seeing it as instrumental in deconstructing anthropocentric morality.