Our Story

Created by Muriel Arnal in 1995 under the name Aequalis, the association becomes Talis in 1998, and then One Voice in 2000 after a famous TGV. Our patron is Théodore Monod, who supported our association from the start.

Radicality, activism and non-violence

Our singularity? Our very radical and militant positioning, but also our non-violence, at the heart of each of our actions. Opposing humans and animals does not make sense, all suffering is linked. There are not several but only one violence, which is exercised regardless of the victim.

Philosophy and leadership

Hence, the fight of One Voice aims at a profound evolution of lifestyles and relationship to the living, to the individual and not to the species. Each being has an intrinsic value, the desire to live in peace and the right to be protected. Since its creation, the association has fought against animal experimentation, slavery of animals in circuses and advocated vegetarianism, at a time when these areas were still ignored by "historical" associations.

A pioneering commitment

It was One Voice who revealed the “mad cow disease” case in 1995, putting together the press kit picked up by the French media, and worked on the ban on meat-and-bone meal. Through our investigations, we also demonstrated for the first time, the suffering of animals in circuses, when many believed in complicity with the trainer. His unprecedented work with international experts against animal testing has led to the development of toxicogenomics, an alternative to animal testing widely used since.

Active wherever animals suffer

Active in France but also abroad with its partners, it has put an end to the exploitation of the bear dancing in India, works in China to a regulation protecting the animals, after several investigations revealing the fate of the dogs and cats sacrificed for meat and fur, and animals in zoos.

In Nepal, Mauritius, South Africa, Haiti, Russia, Brazil ... One Voice acts everywhere where animals are victims of cruelty and denounces their fate, often related to our Western practices (monkey breeding for laboratories, fur industry, trophy hunting, and the supplying dolphinariums ...). It represents France in the main international coalitions against animal experimentation, fur, circuses and dolphinariums.