Her story moved the internet.
In August 2021, a young bull had managed to flee when being taken to a slaughterhouse, in Feurs, in the Loire.
The video of his escape, filmed by the slaughterhouse's surveillance cameras, was broadcast on social networks by the L214 association.
Put to sleep by the firefighters with an anesthetic making the meat of the animal unfit for consumption for 35 days, the young bull baptized “Étienne” had then benefited from a reprieve.
Online, a petition to save the animal had collected more than 28,000 signatures and raised 1,000 euros to buy the animal back from the slaughterhouse.
Since then, Étienne has been living happy days in a pension of the Brigitte Bardot Foundation in Saint-Victor-l'Abbaye, between Rouen and Dieppe, in Seine-Maritime.
The Prim'Holstein young bull was visited this week by Jeanne Mas.
The interpreter of
Save me
, who wrote in 2016 a book devoted to vegetarianism, of which she is a fervent activist, was moved by the fate of the animal so made the decision to offer him a better life.
“What moved me was his desire to live, which pushed him out of the truck. There was a door ajar and he fled. I believe that it is a reaction that anyone would have had to save his life, ”
she explained to our colleagues from France 3 who came to attend the meeting between the animal and the star.
“I took all my jewelry that I had kept for years and put it up for sale. And that's how I was able to raise money for the foundation,”
she explains.
The singer's donation of 2,000 euros to the foundation will make it possible to pay two years of additional pension to the bull calf in Normandy.
