posted 07 May 2004 03:11 PM
Long tied to far-right and racist circles (her hubby is a speechwriter for Le Pen) Brigitte Bardot has spoken out against the "Islamisation" of France and opined about such matters as race-mixing and women's role, but denies she is a promoter of racial hatred: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3692965.stm
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posted 07 May 2004 04:25 PM
But hey she loves animals so lets just love her anyways?
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posted 07 May 2004 04:27 PM
Who said that?
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posted 07 May 2004 05:03 PM
Actually I was just being sarcastic. For years she was the darling of the PETA crowd for her anti-fur, anti-animal abuse stance. I dont remember any attention to any of her other views unless they are all totally recent
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posted 07 May 2004 06:33 PM
Lots of attention has been paid to Bardot's far-right and racist views for many years in the French media and in the Francophone media in Québec. At times she dresses up her racism in animal rights rhetoric, about things like kosher/halal slaughter (instead of slaughter in general...). But she had made many "nakedly" racist comments.
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posted 07 May 2004 08:14 PM
Strange, considering that I've heard that halal and kosher slaughtering practices are actually more humane than the kind that goes on in regular slaughterhouses.
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posted 07 May 2004 08:53 PM
quote:"Certainly, I'm not Balzac," she said, referring to master 19th Century French novelist Honore de Balzac.
"The court noticed," replied judge Catherine Bezio.
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posted 07 May 2004 08:59 PM
quote:Originally posted by Michelle: Strange, considering that I've heard that halal and kosher slaughtering practices are actually more humane than the kind that goes on in regular slaughterhouses.
I've heard this, and I've heard the opposite. I don't know enough about the practises to know which is true.
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posted 07 May 2004 09:21 PM
Kosher & halal, I'm pretty sure, involve gutting and cutting. So do slaughter houses, as well as firing slugs into the head for cattle. Not sure how the animals would be better off being killed 'religiously'.
The more "humane" aspects of kosher & halal are probably more for the humans, as conditions in abatoirs - especially American ones - are brutal and dangerous. Read "Fast food nation".
posted 07 May 2004 10:04 PM
I have. I haven't ordered a hamburger at a fast food restaurant since (don't really like them anyhow), and I have had an aversion to meat (with exceptions) ever since. Although sometimes I can enjoy it if I compartmentalize and turn my mind off a bit while eating it.
I just had raw meat the other night at an Ethiopian restaurant. It was delicious, but it definitely involved a little bit of "turning off my brain" in order to take the first bite.
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posted 08 May 2004 12:25 PM
Hmmm...I was once stupid enough to eat raw pork when I was with a hill tribe in Thailand...I paid a bit of a price for that one!
No problems though when I ate raw horse meat in Japan.
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