MOVIES - Aug. 1, 1990
The Wrath of Bardot: Former film goddess turned animal rights champion Brigitte Bardot has assailed the Islamic world’s ritual slaughter of animals as revolting and cruel. “It is revolting . . . and unacceptable that in the name of religion, man should submit animals to such cruel and barbarous sufferings,” she said in an interview published Tuesday in France’s weekly magazine Present. Bardot, 55, made her statement after seeing a film of the mass slaughter last month of 3,000 sheep by North African immigrants in the Mediterranean port of Marseille.
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