Brigitte Bardot
Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot (28 September 1934 – 28 December 2025) was a French actress, singer and fashion model who, after retiring from acting in 1973, became an animal rights activist. She was known internationally as a sex symbol during the 1950s and 1960s.
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[edit]- I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous, and very unhappy.
- Said in 1984, when interviewed on the occasion of her 50th birthday — as reported in Vocabulary Dictionary and Workbook (2006) by Mark Phillips, p. 17
- All these animals are put in cages, never see the sun or grass, and they leave this hell only to go to the slaughter-house. For me intensive breeding is a sign of human degeneration. If one can find that acceptable, then we humans have lost all moral value. ...
[How long have you been a vegetarian?] Since 1962, when I went on French television to denounce conditions of animal slaughter. That is when I became aware of the horror of factory farming, live transports and the killings of farm animals. I have always been sensitive to animal distress but from then on I refused to be involved in such inhuman industrial deaths.- "Brigitte Bardot: 'I became aware of the horror of factory farming". Interview for Primorske novice (November 2009) as reported by European Vegetarian and Animal News Alliance (EVANA) website
