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Brigitte Bardot’s image complicated by her controversial politics
Brigitte Bardot , hailed as the French Marilyn Monroe, was the first major film star to channel her glamour and fame into supporting France’s far right, who she backed for more than 30 years.
Brigitte Bardot, 1960s French sex symbol turned animal rights activist, dies at 91
At the height of a cinema career that spanned more than two dozen films and three marriages, Bardot came to symbolize a nation bursting out of bourgeois respectability.
California woman on trial for taking chickens from Perdue Farms' plant says she was rescuing them
A California animal rights activist on trial for taking four chickens from one of Perdue Farms’ major poultry plants said Tuesday that she was rescuing Poppy, Ivy, Aster, and Azalea from abuse while prosecutors say she broke the law.
Animal rights activist on trial over chickens taken from Petaluma slaughterhouse
"They're still alive today and that means everything." A recent UC Berkeley graduate and animal activist is facing years in prison for taking chickens she said were being abused. A question at the center of her trial - did she rescue them or steal them?
Activists blend science and folklore as they try to revive Somerset’s eel population
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Feargal Sharkey back campaign to save the animal, which once inspired placenames, songs and stories
Animal Rights protesters voice concern over Shenandoah Co. Fair Pig Scramble event
The Pig Scramble is set to be held Wednesday night at the Shenandoah County Fair.
Animal rights activists to protest at PB Trader Joe's Sunday afternoon
DxE accuses Petaluma Poultry, a subsidiary of poultry giant Perdue Foods, of extreme animal cruelty, including boiling birds alive.
A German zoo faces a backlash after killing 12 healthy baboons
A zoo in the German city of Nuremberg says it has killed 12 baboons despite protests, capping a saga rooted in concerns that the zoo had too little space to house a growing group of the animals.
An Animal Rights Activist Rescued Four Sick Chickens From a Slaughterhouse. Now She’s Facing Five Years in Prison.
How ‘open rescue’ prosecutions reveal larger systemic issues.
Piglets left to starve as part of a controversial art exhibition in Denmark have been stolen
A controversial artist who planned to allow three piglets to starve as part of an exhibition to raise awareness of the mass meat production processes has had to close the show after the animals were stolen.
Brigitte Bardot’s image complicated by her controversial politics
Brigitte Bardot , hailed as the French Marilyn Monroe, was the first major film star to channel her glamour and fame into supporting France’s far right, who she backed for more than 30 years.
Brigitte Bardot, 1960s French sex symbol turned animal rights activist, dies at 91
At the height of a cinema career that spanned more than two dozen films and three marriages, Bardot came to symbolize a nation bursting out of bourgeois respectability.
California woman on trial for taking chickens from Perdue Farms' plant says she was rescuing them
A California animal rights activist on trial for taking four chickens from one of Perdue Farms’ major poultry plants said Tuesday that she was rescuing Poppy, Ivy, Aster, and Azalea from abuse while prosecutors say she broke the law.
Animal rights activist on trial over chickens taken from Petaluma slaughterhouse
"They're still alive today and that means everything." A recent UC Berkeley graduate and animal activist is facing years in prison for taking chickens she said were being abused. A question at the center of her trial - did she rescue them or steal them?
Activists blend science and folklore as they try to revive Somerset’s eel population
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Feargal Sharkey back campaign to save the animal, which once inspired placenames, songs and stories
Animal Rights protesters voice concern over Shenandoah Co. Fair Pig Scramble event
The Pig Scramble is set to be held Wednesday night at the Shenandoah County Fair.
Animal rights activists to protest at PB Trader Joe's Sunday afternoon
DxE accuses Petaluma Poultry, a subsidiary of poultry giant Perdue Foods, of extreme animal cruelty, including boiling birds alive.
A German zoo faces a backlash after killing 12 healthy baboons
A zoo in the German city of Nuremberg says it has killed 12 baboons despite protests, capping a saga rooted in concerns that the zoo had too little space to house a growing group of the animals.
An Animal Rights Activist Rescued Four Sick Chickens From a Slaughterhouse. Now She’s Facing Five Years in Prison.
How ‘open rescue’ prosecutions reveal larger systemic issues.
Piglets left to starve as part of a controversial art exhibition in Denmark have been stolen
A controversial artist who planned to allow three piglets to starve as part of an exhibition to raise awareness of the mass meat production processes has had to close the show after the animals were stolen.
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