Animal activist group PETA has criticised The Hunger Games actress Jennifer Lawrence after she said “screw Peta” in response to a Rolling Stone question about a squirrel skinning scene in her movie, Winter’s Bone.
Lawrence had to learn how to skin a squirrel for the movie.
“I should say it wasn’t real, for PETA — but screw PETA,” she said.
PETA president Ingrid Newkirk responded, saying: “She’s young and the plight of animals somehow hasn’t yet touched her heart.”
“As Henry David Thoreau said,’The squirrel you kill in jest, dies in earnest.’ When people kill animals, it is the animals who are ‘screwed,’ not PETA, and one day I hope she will try to make up for any pain she might cause any animal who did nothing but try to eke out a humble existence in nature,” he said.
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Still can't believe that people have such an issue with animal cruelty but seemingly none with the human slaughter in the movie. Priorities out of whack much????
Umm....maybe because it was a real dead squirrel getting skinned and the hunger games is fiction...!
I do not condone animal cruelty, but anyone who supports PETA and their contradictory propaganda ought to watch the episode of Penn and Teller: Bulls**t! - PETA, and then tell me what you think about that particular organisation.
PETA are out of control. Do people realise that they don't even approve of guide dogs and would rather people's pets were put down rather than be 'enslaved'.
They are also happy for unmulesed sheep to die a horrible death being eaten alive by maggots rather that put their money and energy into researching an mulesing alternative.
PETA want no pets, farm animals, beekeeping etc. They are hardline and crazy. they even support radical groups like the Animal Liberation Front who firebomb buildings that carry out animal research.