BRIGITTE BARDOT - BARDOT ASKS SARKOZY FOR BAN ON SEAL PRODUCTS

BARDOT ASKS SARKOZY FOR BAN ON SEAL PRODUCTS

Outspoken movie icon BRIGITTE BARDOT has written an open letter to French President NICOLAS SARKOZY, urging him to ban seal products. The screen legend-turned-animal rights activist is outraged by laws that permit seal hunting, insisting the creatures are treated cruelly in the production of meat, oils and pelts.
The French star has appealed to the president, voicing her concern, after several European states agreed to hold off on a measure to ban the practice as major seal skin exporters in Canada review their laws on seal hunting.
She writes, "There is no alternative but to ban... the importation, trade, exportation and the transit of any product from seal hunting and without any derogation other than that accorded to the Inuit populations."