Georges Butaud

Georges Butaud (1868 – 26 February 1926) was a French individualist anarchist and veganism activist. He advocated naturist anarchism and founded an early vegan restaurant in Paris.

Georges Butaud
Born1868 (1868)
Marchienne-au-Pont
Died26 February 1926(1926-02-26) (aged 57–58)
Ermont
OccupationAnarchist, veganism activist

Biography

Butaud was born in Marchienne-au-Pont, Belgium. He founded a vegan colony with Sophie Zaïkowska in Bascon, near Château-Thierry.[1] Butaud and Zaïkowska eliminated all dairy products and sugar from their diet and consumed only plant products.[2] He founded Le Végétalien, a vegan journal.[1] The word végétalien was later termed vegan in English.[3]

Butaud with help from Émile Armand founded the La Vie Anarchiste journal.[4] In the 1920s, he contributed to the journal Le Néo-Naturien, which advocated a return to nature philosophy.[5]

Butaud wrote an article in 1922 defending Le végétalisme (veganism). In 1923, Butaud established a vegan restaurant Foyer Végétalien at Rue Mathis, Paris.[6][3] He also established another restaurant at Nice, in 1924. One could sleep there and conferences were also hosted.[6]

Butaud firmly opposed hunting and linked animal cruelty to the capitalist economic system that exploited the consumers of animal products.[7] He advocated a fruit and vegetable diet. He believed that humans were meant to be herbivores that share their food sources, thus vegans were bound to be good communists.[7]

Selected publications

See also

References
  1. Lummel, Peter. (2016). Food and the City in Europe Since 1800. Routledge. p. 218. ISBN 978-0-7546-4989-2
  2. Baubérot, Arnaud. (2004). Histoire du naturisme: Le mythe du retour à la nature. Presses universitaires de Rennes. p. 211. ISBN 978-2753500204
  3. McKay, Robert; Miller, John. (2017). Werewolves, Wolves and the Gothic. University of Wales Press. p. 181. ISBN 978-1-78683-102-6
  4. 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
  5. Beaudet, Céline. (2006). Les milieux libres: vivre en anarchiste à la Belle époque en France. Editions libertaires. p. 66. ISBN 978-2914980289
  6. 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
  7. Crossley, Ceri. (2005). Consumable Metaphors: Attitudes towards Animals and Vegetarianism in Nineteenth-Century France. Peter Lang. pp. 276-277. ISBN 978-3039101900
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