Bardot praises Slovenia's president on animal rights

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AFP) — French film legend Brigitte Bardot has written a letter to Slovenia's president praising him for his stance on animal rights, the Slovenian government said. "Knowing that the president of a European Union member state is a vegetarian, that he opposes laboratory experiments on animals, hunting and intensive animal breeding...

represents hope rather than consolation," Bardot said in the letter to President Janez Drnovsek. "I wish we (in the French presidential elections) had at least a candidate like Janez Drnovsek... then the world would soon become less unbearable," Bardot said, ...