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PETA Ensures Dead Animals Aren’t Forgotten at ‘The Hobbit’ Premiere

Monday, December 10, 2012 15:50
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If
director Peter Jackson were hoping people
would forget about the controversy
surrounding The Hobbit: An Unexpected
Journey
at the film's New York
City premiere, he was in for a disappointment. Amidst the crowd that gathered
to watch the cast and crew waltz into the Ziegfeld Theater were PETA members
wearing horse masks and holding up signs that bore unmistakable reminders of
the horses, chickens,
goats, and sheep who reportedly lost their lives
during production of The Hobbit.

© Jeffery Harmon

© Jeffery Harmon

In
an age of strikingly realistic computer-generated imagery (CGI), there is no
reason for animals even to be present on a movie set, and the deaths of animals during the making of a
film is inexcusable. It isn't as if Jackson didn't know how to make a riveting
blockbuster without using animals: He won a PETA Proggy Award (for progress) for the breathtaking
CGI in King Kong
.

PETA
has asked New Zealand authorities to investigate the deaths that occurred
during the making of The Hobbit. Meanwhile, you
can help by e-mailing [email protected] to get leaflets and posters of your own, and
hit your local theater to make sure that the film's animal victims are not
forgotten.



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