Brigitte Bardot Slams Animal Cruelty Ahead of Eid al-Adha Festival

"I’m fed up, I’ve had it up to here! I want to obtain at all costs an awareness of the atrocities, cruelties, tortures and sufferings that animals undergo every day in France in general indifference," fumes the animal rights activist in a column published on July 7 on her Twitter account.

Consumption of horse meat, treatment of animals in slaughterhouses, "ritual sacrifices imposed by Islam" especially during the Eid festival, torture of animals in laboratories to "find vaccines" against Covid-19, international animal exchanges, etc. These are all practices that the president of the Brigitte Bardot Foundation condemns. She calls on the government, specifically the Minister of Ecology, Barbara Pompili, as well as all political actors, especially the environmentalists, to do enough for the cause she has been defending for nearly 50 years.