Actress Brigitte Bardot Appeals To Obama To End Brutal Seal Slaying
Filed under: animals — Michael Parrish DuDell @ 12:18 pm
February 23rd 2009
You know who rocks the sauce? Brigitte Bardot rocks the sauce!
Seriously, the 74-year-old actress/activist has dedicated the latter part of her life to speaking for those who have no voice, and even founded the Brigitte Bardot Foundation for the Welfare and Protection of Animals in 1986.
Following a plea to French president Nicolas Sarkozky earlier this month, Bardot recently penned an open letter to US president Barack Obama voicing her outrage over laws that permit seal hunting.
She said she has “immense hope” in Obama, “even if I know that he is in demand from all directions and he already has a lot to do in his own country.”
Do you think Obama will help end the brutal seal trade? Chime in and share your thoughts!
photo credit: observer.com
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Tagged: barack obama, brigitte bardot, nicholas sarkozky
Other countries are already taking part in boycotts, i hope the USA follows suit.
A few weeks ago one of the hunts was called off cause there was no demand…but of course the murdering scum went out a week later to club some seals for “samples”….really frickin LAME.
Against seal slaying? Good.
Having very dodgy politics that led to her being charged for inciting racial hatred? Not so good.
Whilst I do support a boycott, I’m not going to say that Bardot rocks, if only because I’m not a fan of her racial politics.
Where is Patrick Moore, the once president of the Greenpeace Foundation who was the one to make way for Brigitte joining their organization during that first seal hunt protest so many years ago?
He’s too busy advocating nuclear power, that’s where he is.
So how about Patrick, how do you reconcile your animal rights activism with killing millions of fish every year in nuclear reactor river water cooling system uptakes?
Patrick Moore quit being an animal rights advocate the day he decided to defend the logging cartels. Patrick Moore is a joke along with the organization he helped co-found.
I don’t know what Barack Obama (or Nicolas Sarkozy for that matter) can do about sealing laws in another sovereign country, but the sentiment is sure nice.
I don’t think it’s fair to call her racist because of statements she has made opposing halal and kosher slaughter methods. Opposing cruel slaughter methods that are based on fundamentalist belief doesn’t sound racist to me.
VeggieTart…the US is Canada’s largest trading partner. I’m sure there is plenty Obama could do to help end the slaughter if he so chose.
Maelstrom: As someone who was raised in a Muslim family (but now an atheist vegan), it’s not her condemnation of the slaughter which bothers me, and is something I agree with. What bothers me have been her other statements:
“…my country, France, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims.” BBC and Reuters
Classy. That is what I consider racist (since right-wingers tend to use “Muslims” as code for “brown folks”), not the slaughter (something I abhor).
Adnan Y…I stand corrected. I should have done a better search.
If President Obama chooses to, he can bring the gruesome seal slaughter in Canada to a close. Obama just needs to mention the cruelty and ask his adoring millions to make informed choices when they shop – cruel or compassionate products: make your choice. I think his people will make the right choice.
Maelstrom: No worries.
Back to the main topic, though:
Back in the UK, a trawlerman’s gotten in trouble with the law for his own brutal killing of seal pups. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/feb/25/wildlife-scotland