PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) is an international non-profit organization that was established in 1980 and fights for the rights of animals. It states on its website that over five million people from all over the world belong to it, which makes it the largest institution of this type. The organization is famous for its controversial campaigns and unconventional ways of operating: its posters show naked or half-naked people who oppose wearing fur, vegetarianism was promoted with the films “Your mummy kills animals” and “Your daddy kills animals”, and in order to oppose drinking cow’s milk, a parody was created the “Take a beer” social campaign. Now the organization is boycotting “
PETA: The Witcher has a monster problem
The organization has posted an appeal and a video on the web, in which it calls:
“The Witcher” has a problem with monsters. Don’t watch him. From the lemur to the owl to the camel, Netflix has chosen to use animals from the Continent, while other productions use visual effects. Even in a fantasy world, animals aren’t actors: leave them off-screen. Even in the age of digital effects, in the world of The Witcher, Netflix still uses animals and uses them like props.
The website also reads: “Producers prefer to brutally use, among others, Sajmiri lemurs and monkeys with other animals, rather than using modern and humane digital technology. Typically, the entertainment industry mindlessly separates animals prematurely from their mothers and drowns out their natural instincts to explore the territory. , choose partners and raise the young, feed them, so a nice audience should skip The Witcher and instead give a penny to those movies and series that only contain voluntary human performances. “
On the other hand, the creators of the series assure that no animal suffered any damage during the production of “The Witcher”, and has not yet officially addressed the allegations. However, let us remind you that PETA is hitting the entertainment industry for the first time. For example, in the sixth part of the game “Far Cry” there is an option of cockfighting – this is a very brutal practice in which birds are tied with razor blades to their legs and the animals are lured at each other. The one who kills the opponent wins. PETA pointed out that this was a glorification of cruelty and called for a change in this element of the game.
In 2020, activists of the organization pointed out that there are also irregularities in the popular game “Animal Crossing”. As part of the game, players can donate various exhibits to the museum run by the owl, such as fossils, fish and insect remains. And this, according to PETA, is a classic example of how inhumanly animals are treated: their corpses after death should not be treated as something that can be viewed. In 2017, the organization also sued a photographer who posted a selfie of a monkey on Wikipedia, which he took with his camera. PETA fought to grant the animal creative copyright and bankrupted the defendant.
Source: Gazeta
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