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Yves Bonnardel (born 1967) is a French activist, philosopher, writer and editor. He advocates for antispeciesism, libertarianism and egalitarianism. Bonnardel is one of the founding members of the French 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.
In May 1989, along with David Olivier and three other activists, Bonnardel published Nous ne mangeons pas de viande pour ne pas tuer d'animaux ("We Do Not Eat Meat So We Do Not Kill Animals"), in response to discussions of vegetarianism in France. In 1991, together with Olivier and Françoise Blanchon, 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. In 1997, he co-wrote and distributed the Manifesto for the Abolition of International Apartheid with Olivier.
Bonnardel co-founded Veggie Pride in 2001. Bonnardel is an editor of the antispeciesist French-language journal L'Amorce ("The Primer").
Bonnardel is critical of humanism, describing it as a form of elitism centred on white men, arguing that "humanism is racism, patriarchy, the education of children, slaughterhouses". He instead argues for egalitarianism. 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 "one must not harm a sentient being". 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.
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