Here's an important note that uses a bit of scientific research to shed light on animal photography under criticism by animal rights activists.
Take a look at this argument against one of Kansas City's biggest marketers:
HALLMARK CARDS COMES UNDER FIRE FOR SELLING CHIMPANZEE GREETING CARDS
PETA Wants Company to Pull Cards Featuring Great Ape 'Actors,' Cites Chimpanzee Exhibitor's History of Violating Animal-Protection Law
Kansas City, Mo. — Dr. Jane Goodall first revealed that the "smile" exhibited by chimpanzees on greeting cards is actually a fear grimace, which is a sign that a chimpanzee is deeply afraid. That's the message that PETA has dispatched to Hallmark Cards in a letter urging the company to remove all cards featuring images of "smiling" baby chimpanzees who are forced to wear costumes, wigs, makeup, and sunglasses while performing unnatural types of behavior that distress and confuse them.
PETA has informed Hallmark Cards that great apes used in the entertainment industry are typically taken away from their mothers shortly after birth, causing lifelong psychological trauma to both mother and infant. Physical abuse during training is also standard practice. And the chimpanzees featured on most Hallmark cards were provided by the Missouri Primate Foundation, aka "Chimparty," a notorious company that has been repeatedly cited by the U.S. Department of Agriculture for violating the federal Animal Welfare Act, including by keeping chimpanzees and other primates in cramped cages and failing to provide sufficient sanitation, ventilation, and enrichment.
"No chimpanzee should be forced into a costume and scared to death for a birthday card," says PETA primatologist Julia Gallucci. "PETA wants Hallmark Cards to help protect these endangered animals by pulling these vile cards from circulation."
PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that "animals are not ours to use for entertainment"—notes that studies show that the inaccurate portrayal of great apes in the media, such as on Hallmark greeting cards, seriously hinders conservation efforts and may also increase the demand for these dangerous animals as "pets."
The top 10 ad agencies in the U.S. have banned the use of great apes in their ads, and Pfizer, Capital One, AT&T, Dodge, and many other companies have pulled ads featuring great apes. Universal Studios no longer allows orangutans in its live theme-park shows. In addition, Sellers Publishing recently pulled all "RSVP"-branded cards featuring great apes from circulation.
For more information, please visit PETA.org.
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Wow a chimps with a job! That's rare.
ReplyDeleteHallmark won't be around for much longer. They're going the way of the newspaper.
ReplyDeleteIs that the Mayor?
ReplyDeleteKC = home to cruelty.
ReplyDeleteWe should never have freed them and then given them the right to vote.
ReplyDeleteActually Denny was not a racist and was saved by four black people http://content.time.com/time/specials/2007/la_riot/article/0,28804,1614117_1614084_1614511,00.html
DeleteFucking Bolonzo Wahmachin trying to pass as a chimp so he can do the zoo free. He is sooooo racist.
ReplyDeletePut the chimps back in the jungle and stick a niglet on the card and no one will realize the diff. Win-win.
ReplyDeletePeople Eating Tasty Animals. Fuck PETA
ReplyDeleteTHIS is the crap we're worrying about now??? Who cares, it's a freaking picture.
ReplyDeleteWow a chimp with a job who's not on EBT! Take a lesson, my little nogs! You too can work for a living.
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