Category: Animal Film

Pdsa Animal Awards

For example, the elephants within the latter film have been subjected to electroshocks and stun guns, and were beaten with bull hooks. Clearly, the AHA’s “No Animals Were Harmed” seal of approval is extraordinarily misleading to filmmakers and audiences alike. According to PETA, “the AHA doesn’t monitor living situations of animals off set, throughout pre-production coaching, or through the premature separation of infants from their moms. The group, which is funded by the Screen Actors Guild – the very industry that it’s monitoring – not often, if ever, files formal complaints when animals are mistreated.

Australia’s Deadly Animals Bingo!

As Anjelica Huston points out within the video above, there’s nothing glamorous about showbiz for animals, and animal abuse in films is not uncommon. These animals are then pressured to spend most of their lives in small, filthy cages, deprived of everything that’s pure and necessary to them. And but, the AHA actively defends using animal ‘actors’ in film and tv productions despite expert testimony indicating that “most wild animals cannot be trained for leisure without subjecting them to physical abuse.” according to PETA. But what about ‘animal actors’ in films, like Every Which Way But Loose (that includes an orangutan) or Water for Elephants (with an elephant ‘star’)? Well, you’ll be saddened to study that these animals undergo what’s principally torture so as to be able to ‘act’.

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