Brigitte Gothière

Brigitte Gothière
Brigitte Gothière during the demonstration against the 1000-cow farm in Abbeville, 18 February 2012
Born	(1973-05-18) 18 May 1973 (age 50)
Nationality	French
Occupation(s)	Animal rights and antispeciesist activist, editor
Spouse	Sébastien Arsac
Children	2

Brigitte Gothière (born 18 May 1973) is a French animal rights activist, spokesperson and director of the animal rights organization L214, which she co-founded with her husband Sébastien Arsac. She was also the editor of the journal Cahiers antispécistes from 1998 to 2019.

Biography

Gothière was born on 18 May 1973; her mother was a nurse and her father, an electrical engineer. She studied mathematics and electronics in higher education.^[1] In 1993, when she was a student, she decided to stop eating meat, as well as any animal products.^[2] After graduation, she taught at a vocational high school^[1] and taught applied physics in Lyon.^[2]

With a few activists, in 2003, she launched the "Stop Gavage" collective, which fights against the force-feeding of geese and ducks.^[3] This led to the establishment, in 2008, of the animal rights association L214, which disseminates shocking images of slaughterhouses to raise awareness of the animal cause;^[4] Gothière is the spokesperson and director.^[5] She has argued that "only a vegan society would amount to success", but that small steps are progress.^[6]

Gothière was an editor of antispeciesist journal Cahiers antispécistes, from 1998 to the end of its publication in 2019.^[7]

She is married to Sébastien Arsac, who is also an animal activist; the couple has two children, who are also vegan.^[1]

See also

• List of animal rights advocates

References