{"id":756205,"date":"2019-02-15T08:38:35","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T13:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=756205"},"modified":"2019-02-15T08:38:35","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T13:38:35","slug":"brigitte-bardot-i-know-what-it-feels-like-to-be-hunted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=756205","title":{"rendered":"Brigitte Bardot: &#8216;I know what it feels like to be hunted&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>Most of the book is devoted to animals. Bardot talks extensively about the 'unspeakable suffering' to which they are subjected by 'man\u2019s barbarism every day'. <\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>DALYA ALBERGE:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;She was the ultimate screen goddess, who gave it all up, dedicating herself to protecting animals for the past 46 years. Now, in a forthcoming memoir, Brigitte Bardot laments the destructive nature of celebrity&#8230; \u201cI know what it feels like to be hunted,\u201d she says&#8230; \u201cThis worship of celebrity \u2026 suffocated me&#8221;&#8230; Her book, Tears of Battle: An Animal Rights Memoir, is a collaboration with Anne-C\u00e9cile Huprelle and Grace McQuillan and will be published in April by Skyhorse Publishing. She dedicates it to animals and writes of her despair in human beings, whom she says inflict all sorts of evils and sufferings upon them for their own needs, leisure and pleasure&#8230; She said: \u201cHumans have hurt me. Deeply. And it is only with animals, with nature, that I found peace&#8221;&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Most of the book is devoted to animals. She talks extensively about the \u201cunspeakable suffering\u201d to which they are subjected by \u201cman\u2019s barbarism every day\u201d. \u201cDo you know, for example, what is done to certain male chicks? They are crushed alive because they are unable to lay eggs and because they do not possess the same assets as chickens raised for their flesh&#8221;&#8230; \u201cIn a way, humanity remains like an animal. It functions as a herd. Man is fundamentally selfish, and most people do not react to a cause unless it directly affects them \u2026 I want the public to be indignant, to come out of its comfort zone&#8221;.&#8217; <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2019\/feb\/15\/brigitte-bardot-on-life-in-the-spotlight-animals-nature\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UMy8lNIR__U\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DALYA ALBERGE: &#8216;She was the ultimate screen goddess, who gave it all up, dedicating herself to protecting animals for the past 46 years. 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