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Brigitte Bardot ‘Working Herself to the Bone’ for Animal Rights at 90: Fighting ‘Keeps Her Strong’
Brigitte Bardot hasn't given up her lifelong mission of fighting to protect animals, even as she enters her 90s, a source exclusively reveals to Closer.
As the source notes, the movie star has been recently campaigning to spare the life of an orphaned wild boar in her native France, named Rillette, who authorities want to put down, as the animal can pose a threat to human and livestock via disease transmission. A petition to save Rillette has gained over 170,000 signatures online, with Brigitte throwing her weight behind the effort to let the boar remain with her adoptive human parents, despite them usually being a nuisance to farmers and a prize to hunters in France. The Foundation has been crucial to spreading awareness of animal rights in Europe and the United States, including leading a boycott on the human consumption of farmed horse meat citing concerns over cruelty.
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