928...Bridget Bardot Speaks

For those of you who are not history buffs the name Bridget Bardot may not resonate.

She was a film star back in the olden days, starting her career around the same time Gordie Howe did and for the past 3 decades she has been an animal rights activist, specifically picking on the Newfoundlanders who harvest less than 60,000 seals a year.

CBC News reports that this year's master plan from People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals poster person Ms. Bardot to stop the seal trade is to organize a boycott of Canadian maple syrup.

I know, makes no sense.

According to Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canada produces about 85 per cent of the world's maple syrup, the rest presumably is from Vermont and New England. We schlep more than $213 million of the liquid gold to almost 45 different countries. I love that, almost 45 different countries---I presume we sell it to 44 different countries.

If the foreign markets dry up they could just sell the excess to my mom; I swear, she must drink the stuff.

Ms. Bardot, who is 75 but, due to the fact that she never wore sunblock looks closer to 175 than 75, was a sex symbol and actress and unbelievably hot, appearing in 16 films.

She is not just an animal rights activist showcased by PETA, oh no. She is also a convicted racist in her homeland of France.

Five times.

Think about that when you are putting syrup on everything tomorrow morning.

WFDS