Georges Butaud (6 June 1868 – 26 February 1926) was a Belgian-born French individualist anarchist and veganism activist. He advocated naturist anarchism and founded early vegan restaurants in Paris and Nice.
Georges Butaud | |
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| Born | 6 June 1868 Marchienne-au-Pont, Belgium |
| Died | 26 February 1926 (aged 57) Ermont, France |
| Occupation(s) | Anarchist and veganism activist |
Biography
editButaud was born on 6 June 1868 in Marchienne-au-Pont, Belgium, to French parents.[1] He founded a vegan colony with Sophie Zaïkowska in Bascon, near Château-Thierry.[2] Butaud and Zaïkowska eliminated all dairy products and sugar from their diet and consumed only plant products.[3] He founded Le Végétalien, a vegan journal.[2] The word végétalien was later termed vegan in English.[4]
Butaud with help from Émile Armand founded the La Vie Anarchiste journal.[5] In the 1920s, he contributed to the journal Le Néo-Naturien, which advocated a return to nature philosophy.[6]
Butaud wrote an article in 1922 defending Le végétalisme (veganism). In 1923, Butaud established a vegan restaurant Foyer Végétalien at Rue Mathis, Paris.[4][7] He also established another restaurant at Nice, in 1924. One could sleep there and conferences were also hosted.[7]
Butaud firmly opposed hunting and linked human cruelty to animals to the capitalist economic system that exploited the consumers of animal products.[8] He advocated a fruit and vegetable diet and believed that humans were meant to be herbivores that share their food sources; thus vegans were bound to be good communists.[8]
Selected publications
edit- Les conséquences pratiques du végétalisme intégral sur l'évolution individuelle et sociale par (The practical consequences of integral veganism on individual and social evolution, 1922)
- L'Individualisme conduit au Robinsonisme: Le Végétalisme permet le communisme (1929)
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b Maitron, Jean; Dupuy, Rolf (18 November 2021), "BUTAUD Georges", Dictionnaire des anarchistes (in French), Paris: Maitron/Editions de l'Atelier, retrieved 18 September 2022
- ^ a b Lummel, Peter. (2016). Food and the City in Europe Since 1800. Routledge. p. 218. ISBN 978-0-7546-4989-2
- ^ Baubérot, Arnaud. (2004). Histoire du naturisme: Le mythe du retour à la nature. Presses universitaires de Rennes. p. 211. ISBN 978-2753500204
- ^ a b McKay, Robert; Miller, John. (2017). Werewolves, Wolves and the Gothic. University of Wales Press. p. 181. ISBN 978-1-78683-102-6
- ^ Sonn, Richard David. (2010). Sex, Violence, and the Avant-Garde: Anarchism in Interwar France. Pennsylvania State University Press. p. 107. ISBN 978-0-271-03663-2
- ^ Beaudet, Céline. (2006). Les milieux libres: vivre en anarchiste à la Belle époque en France. Editions libertaires. p. 66. ISBN 978-2914980289
- ^ a b Legendre, Tony. (2006). Expériences de vie communautaire anarchiste en France: le milieu libre de Vaux, Aisne, 1902-1907, et la colonie naturiste et végétalienne de Bascon, Aisne, 1911-1951. Editions libertaires. p. 52. ISBN 978-2914980333
- ^ a b Crossley, Ceri. (2005). Consumable Metaphors: Attitudes towards Animals and Vegetarianism in Nineteenth-Century France. Peter Lang. pp. 276-277. ISBN 978-3039101900