Ernest Bonnejoy

Ernest Bonnejoy
Ernest Bonnejoy
Born	1833
Died	1896 (aged 62–63)
Occupation	Physician and vegetarianism activist

Ernest Bonnejoy (1833 – 1896) was a French physician and vegetarianism activist.

Bonnejoy aimed to rationalize vegetarianism.[1] He favoured health over moral arguments. He argued meat was harmful for health and that vegetarianism could reverse the degeneration of the French population.[1][2] Historians have described Bonnejoy as the most influential French vegetarian in the 1880s and 1890s.[1][2][3]

His book Vegetarianism and the Rational Vegetarian Regime (1891) was influenced by the discoveries of Louis Pasteur and the then new germ theory of disease.[4] Bonnejoy promoted "muscular vegetarianism" to boost the immune system and improve public health.[4]

Bonnejoy was a member of the Sociéte Végétarienne de France (Vegetarian Society of France). He contributed to the Society's journal, La Reforme Alimentaire.[2]

Publications

Principes d'alimentation rationnelle hygienique et economique avec des recettes de cuisine vegetarienne (1884)
Le Végétarisme et le Régime Végétarien Rationnel (1891)
Principes d'alimentation rationnelle et de cuisine végétarienne (1896)

References

Thoms, Ulrike. (2017). Of Carnivores and Conquerors. In Elizabeth Neswald, David F. Smith, Ulrike Thoms. Setting Nutritional Standards: Theory, Policies, Practices: French Nutritional Debates in the Age of Empire, 1890-1914. University of Rochester Press. p. 85. ISBN 978-1-58046-576-2
Crossley, Ceri. (2005). Consumable Metaphors: Attitudes towards Animals and Vegetarianism in Nineteenth-Century France. Peter Lang. pp. 243-244. ISBN 978-3039101900
Baubérot, Arnaud. (2008). Un projet de réforme hygiénique des modes de vie: naturistes et végétariens à la Belle Époque. French Politics, Culture & Society 26 (3): 1-22.
Puskar-Pasewicz, Margaret. (2010). Cultural Encyclopedia of Vegetarianism. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 108. ISBN 978-0-313-37556-9

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[Thoms_2017-1] Thoms, Ulrike. (2017). Of Carnivores and Conquerors. In Elizabeth Neswald, David F. Smith, Ulrike Thoms. Setting Nutritional Standards: Theory, Policies, Practices: French Nutritional Debates in the Age of Empire, 1890-1914. University of Rochester Press. p. 85. ISBN 978-1-58046-576-2

[Crossley_2005-2] Crossley, Ceri. (2005). Consumable Metaphors: Attitudes towards Animals and Vegetarianism in Nineteenth-Century France. Peter Lang. pp. 243-244. ISBN 978-3039101900

[3] Baubérot, Arnaud. (2008). Un projet de réforme hygiénique des modes de vie: naturistes et végétariens à la Belle Époque. French Politics, Culture & Society 26 (3): 1-22.

[Puskar-Pasewicz_2010-4] Puskar-Pasewicz, Margaret. (2010). Cultural Encyclopedia of Vegetarianism. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 108. ISBN 978-0-313-37556-9