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Brigitte Bardot is asking the European Union to institute a Vegetarian Day to help fight global warming.

In a letter to European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barrosoa, Bardot said “a few weeks before the Copenhagen climate summit, I would like to draw your attention to the need to question cattle-farming, whose effects on the environment are of concern.”

Bardot backed her passionate writing with facts from studies conducted by World Bank and the UN Food Agency.

“If ‘developed’ nations were to reduce their meat consumption, there would be less famine, which kills almost six million children each year,” Bardot wrote.

“Our collective duty is to act at all levels, including by promoting a vegetarian diet,” she said

“A European ‘Vegetarian Day’ would be a strong symbol.”

Turning 75 years of age in September, Bardot shows no signs of “retiring” from her mission to save animals, the planet and human health.

via france24.com

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Two sex symbols of the 60s, Brigitte Bardot and Sophia Loren, turned 75 this month.

Bardot, a vegetarian and animal rights activist, wished Sophia a happy three quarters of a century, asking Sophia to give her the best birthday present ever.

“I wish a happy birthday to Sophia Loren, my splendid twin, and I ask her to stop wearing fur — that is the best gift she could offer me,” Bardot said.

Bardot was less harsh with her words than she was in the 90s when she said, “Wearing a fur is wearing a cemetery on your back,” after Loren posed in fur for an Italian designer.

Hey, it’s her birthday month. Everyone’s a little nicer around that time.

via timescorrespondents.typepad.com

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In a letter from the Brigitte Bardot foundation, France president Nicolas Sarkozy has been asked to implement a meat-free day in the country, starting with all public establishments, and encouraging the private sector to do so as well.

“Other than environmental and humane concerns, the refusal of meat consumption is also the best way to protest against the inhumanity and cruelty in factory farms, during transport and during the slaughter of billions of animals that are sacrificed and eaten each year,” the foundation wrote.

“There is already a ‘day ago without car’, a ‘day without tobacco’, but the initiation of a vegetarian day would have a much greater impact than all ‘carbon’ taxes put together, and the planet would be in infinitely better shape (which would be even still better if that vegetarian initiative would be valid for 365 days per year”).

Bardot’s request comes just after the Climate summit in New York and ahead of the Carbon Tax launch on fuels in France.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations states in their report “Livestock a major threat to environment,” that the livestock sector produces more gases than all of the transportation industry combined.

via evana.org

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A big slice of vegan birthday cake goes out to the following vegetarian or vegan celebrities today.

• Brigitte Bardot (75)

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It’s time to break out the agave syrup for those waffles and pancakes.

Brigitte Bardot is urging everyone to boycott maple syrup made in Canada because of the country’s seal slaughter practices.

“These massive ethical reactions from consumers can sometimes convince a government or a corporation to change the way that it does business.”

“Canadian law authorizes seal pups to be legally killed as soon as they have lost their white baby fur, which happens about two weeks after birth. On the ice floes, the seals are bludgeoned, and some are skinned while still alive. Each spring, this vision of horror returns: The ice floes become an open-air slaughterhouse, where some pups are left in agony, their mothers trying desperately to revive their small bloody bodies.”

“The United States and the European Union have banned seal products, but Canada produces about 85 percent of the world’s maple syrup?the maple leaf is even the symbol of this country.”

“Refusing to buy maple syrup so as to refuse to be an accomplice to the slaughter perpetrated on the ice floes can send a strong message to Canadian officials.”

Read Brigitte’s entire post at peta.org.

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The end of September marks birthdays for two big sex symbol icons of the 60s, Sophia Loren and Brigitte Bardot.

Both woman turn 75 this month and were known for their screen goddess film looks in their youth, but from an animal rights point of view, they’re polar opposites.

After retiring from movies around the age of 40, vegetarian Bardot devoted her life to animal activism, calling it “the most wonderful success” of her life.

And when Loren posed in a fur ad for an Italian designer in the 90s, Bardot wrote to her saying, “Wearing a fur is wearing a cemetery on your back.”

In Defense of Animals posted this formula for the number of animals it takes to make  fur coat.

“To make one fur coat you must kill at least fifty-five wild mink, thirty-five ranched mink, forty sables, eleven lynx, eighteen red foxes, eleven silver foxes, one hundred chinchillas, thirty rex rabbits, nine beavers, thirty muskrats, fifteen bobcats, twenty-five skunks, fourteen otters, one hundred twenty-five ermines, thirty possums, one hundred squirrels, or twenty-seven raccoons.”

That’s quite a pet cemetery.

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The media is cruel!

Former sex kitten Brigitte Bardot is the latest victim to fall prey to nasty comments about the fact she has a few laugh lines and is no longer the pin up she was in the 60s.

But soon to be 75 year old Brigitte, having her priorities straight, knows there’s something more important that plush lips and perky breasts.

“I gave my beauty and my youth to men,” Bardot said. “I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.”

Good for her!

Bardot has been vocal in ending seal hunts in several countries, bullfighting, and pig culling in response to swine flu scares.

The vegetarian gave examples of what she eats for dinner after a long day of activism:

“beans with sautéed potatoes, lots of vegetables with eggs and garlic and Provençal herbs, tarte tatin.”

via The Mirror

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Former actress turned animal activist Brigitte Bardot is trying to round up support from a fellow French sister to end bullfighting in France.

The sport which involves brutally killing a bull in front of an audience is a tradition in Southern France, much like it is in Spain.

Bardot has written to France’s First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, asking for her help to end the torture by giving hubby President Nicolas Sarkozy the nudge.

“Could you convince your husband to ban bullfights, this atrocious spectacle of death, by telling him ”someone told me France must no longer allow the death of a tortured animal”?” wrote Bardot.

“I can”t tell you how important this stance is in the struggle I have pursued for so many years.”

Bardot also thanked Mrs. Sarkozy for not wearing fur.

via newkerala.com

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