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October 28, 2021
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Los Angeles – Forward of manufacturing on Legally Blonde 3 and in honor of protagonist Elle Woods’ animal advocacy, PETA is urging star Reese Witherspoon and author Mindy Kaling to maintain canine from business suppliers out of the movie and promote animal adoption messaging as an alternative of inadvertently glamorizing the breeding of Chihuahuas. In doing so, the movie’s third installment might stop Chihuahuas from being impulse-purchased from pet retailers and breeders and later uncared for and even deserted at shelters—which was reported following earlier Legally Blonde releases when unprepared followers needed their very personal Bruisers.
“As a Gemini vegetarian who made it her mission to finish animal abuse within the type of cosmetics testing, Elle would definitely object to the neglect that PETA and law-enforcement investigations have uncovered at Hollywood suppliers” the letter reads. “That’s why PETA celebrates when filmmakers use humane know-how or solid their very own companion animals as an alternative.”
PETA notes that the majority canine utilized in movie and TV endure behind-the-scenes at business animal suppliers: Dogs have been denied food in order that they’d be motivated by starvation when being educated to carry out methods, kept in cramped cages stacked on top of one another in a dark garage and left outside in barren kennels without bedding despite temperatures in the low 40s, and animals have been disadvantaged of veterinary care, even when sick or injured.
PETA—whose motto reads, partially, that “animals usually are not ours to make use of for leisure”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For extra info, please go to PETA.org or observe the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.
PETA’s letter to Kaling and Witherspoon follows.
Expensive Mindy and Reese,
As followers all over the world anticipate Elle Woods’ subsequent transfer in Legally Blonde 3, we hope you’ll “ask not what your finest pal can do for man however what you are able to do for man’s finest pal” by vowing to maintain canine from business suppliers out of the movie and selling animal adoption as an alternative of inadvertently glamorizing the breeding of Chihuahuas or different purebred canine.
As a Gemini vegetarian who made it her mission to finish animal abuse within the type of cosmetics testing, Elle would definitely object to the neglect that PETA and law-enforcement investigations have uncovered at Hollywood suppliers. Whereas Elle handled Bruiser with love and respect, the fact is grim for many canine utilized in movie and TV, who are sometimes disadvantaged of the very issues all canine deserve—a household and a comfortable mattress in a loving house to relaxation their head on every evening.
At off-set coaching compounds, canine have been discovered kept in kennels stacked on top of one another in a garage and left outside in barren kennels without bedding, despite temperatures that dropped into the low 40s. As well as, animals have been denied meals in order that they’d be hungry whereas being educated to carry out methods and sick and injured animals have been disadvantaged of veterinary care. That’s why PETA celebrates when filmmakers use humane know-how or solid their very own companion animals as an alternative, simply as Bradley Cooper did in A Star Is Born—as a result of meaning the canine has an actual house and isn’t condemned to languishing at a facility, simply for use as a prop when the time comes.
It’s no secret that audiences rush to get the breeds they fall in love with on display. Legally Blonde helped popularize Chihuahuas—adoring followers needed their very personal Bruisers, and shelters reported spikes of their consumption of Chihuahuas as soon as the novelty wore off. Since thousands and thousands of undesirable and deserted canine are awaiting properties in shelters right this moment, together with almost 6,000 Chihuahuas on Petfinder.com alone, it might be unethical for extra canine to be bred, purchased, and discarded as in the event that they had been final season’s style fad.
Might we please hear from you instantly? We are able to’t wait to see what animal rights struggle Elle takes up subsequent. Thanks in your time and consideration.
Finest regards,
Lauren Thomasson
Affiliate Director, Animals in Movie and Tv
PETA
