---
title: "Veggie Pride - IVU - International Vegetarian Union"
description: "Veggie Pride: from IVU News 2002 Paris: May 18, 2002 - supported by several IVU Member Societies Veggie Pride was born. Veggie Pride means: pride in refusing to order animals to be abused and killed for our bellies."
url: "https://ivu.org/international-vegetarian-union/resources/interviews/5495-news-2002-pride.html"
date: "2026-11-06T00:16:24+00:00"
language: "en-GB"
---

#  Veggie Pride

![Veggie Pride](https://ivu.org/images/legacy/history/banners/news-2002-pride.png)**Veggie Pride** *from IVU News 2002*

Paris: May 18, 2002 - supported by several IVU Member Societies *Veggie Pride* was born. *Veggie Pride* means: pride in refusing to order animals to be abused and killed for our bellies.

About 200 demonstrators took part in the First Veggie Pride held in Paris on October 13, 2001. We denounced vegephobia, the hatred against those who refuse to participate in the great collective against animals. We procalimed our intention to fully exert our rights, including our right to stand up for the non-human animals. These rights of ours are indirectly the only rights that nonhumans have and it is important that we no longer be shy about them.

The demonstration brought energy and courage to many of us, who only too often feel almost ashamed of our 'difference' and feel forced to apologize for our compassion. The event also obtained a handsome media coverage. We plan the *Veggie Pride* to be an annual demonstration, held every Spring in Paris - though we would be pleased to see the idea spread to other cities and countries!

The Second Veggie Pride will be on Mat 18, 2002. Details and an English translationof the Veggie Pride manifesto are on the event's website, [www.veggiepride.free.fr ](http://www.veggiepride.free.fr/)

Information in English can also be obtained by calling David at: 33 478699071, or Florence at: 33 495382744.

A note on this archive. The history section of this website is drawn from a body of legacy content originally compiled by John Davis, former manager of the International Vegetarian Union. It represents his curation of historical material, and in places includes passages written by him directly.

Over the years, the IVU website has migrated between several different hosting servers. In the course of these migrations, a number of PDF files were unfortunately lost, and **some links to PDF documents may no longer function**. Where this is the case, we have chosen to leave the original link text in place, as it may itself carry information of historical value.

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