Brigitte Bardot

Brigitte Bardot, one-time French screen goddess turned animal rights activist, wants the European Union to institute a "Vegetarian Day" as part of the battle against global warming. In a letter this week to European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barrosoa, Bardot said "a few weeks before the Copenhagen climate summit, I would like to draw your attention to the need to question cattle-farming, whose effects on the environment are of concern." Quoting studies by the World Bank and the UN food agency FAO, Bardot said in the letter which was released Friday that cattle-raising not only caused high carbon emissions but also polluted soils and ... Read Full Story

Featuring: Brigitte Bardot AFP - French screen goddess turned animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot has appealed to the government of Catalonia to back a campaign to ban bullfighting in the northeastern Spanish region. [From: Yahoo! Celebrity] Read Full Story

Former film star Brigitte Bardot urges Nepal's president to stop a ritual slaughter of animals in an upcoming religious festival. Read More... Read Full Story

Former film star Brigitte Bardot urges Nepal's president to stop a ritual slaughter of animals in an upcoming religious festival. Read Full Story

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A 50 year-old Russian coal miner suffering from lung disease is seeking a buyer for his prized possession, a signed photograph of sultry Brigitte Bardot, to pay for an operation, a popular tabloid reported on Wednesday. Unlike many of her fans, bachelor Vladimir Komarov fell in love with "BB" only a few years ago after watching the French siren's 1956 debut film "Et Dieu crea la femme" (And God created woman), he told the Tvoi Den paper. "There was just no one else like her," said the thick-set, double-chinned miner from the industrial city of Chelyabinsk in the Ural mountains, about ... Read Full Story