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PETA Is Protesting the New Show 'Animal Practice': Whose Side Are You On?

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There’s more trouble brewing for the new NBC series “Animal Practice.” First, they pre-empted The Who and Ray Davies at the closing ceremonies of the 2012 London Olympics. Now, PETA is protesting the show. The animal rights group feels Crystal, the monkey star of the sitcom, is being exploited and have rallied the troops to let NBC know they are not pleased.

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They posted on their Facebook page this morning and asked their followers to join in protest today in Burbank at the NBC studios. They were also looking for volunteers to wear monkey masks, which they provided to willing participants on site. For anyone who couldn't make it in person, or who didn't see the post in time, it's not too late to support the cause. They can still join in the fun by wearing black in support of Crystal.

They pleaded with fans, “We would love to have you come out and hold a sign and help hand out leaflets!" PETA is bringing up an age-old question in the entertainment industry. Is it cruel towards animals to put them in front of the camera solely for our entertainment? Crystal, who has starred in both “Night at the Museum” and “The Hangover Part II,” has not commented on the alleged exploitation. So, whose side are you on: NBC’s or PETA’s?
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  • SQLDave miseryk... 2012/09/20 14:30:31
  • shadow76 2012/09/20 08:29:21 (edited)
    NBC. The animal is not being harmed.
    shadow76
    +4
    They all have animal rights people on the sets, even if it is just cockroaches
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  • Marcus Clark 2012/09/20 07:28:58
    NBC. The animal is not being harmed.
    Marcus Clark
    +5
    It doesn't matter what PETA is up to, I'll always take the other side.
    I do however support the alternate PETA (People Eating Tasty Animals.)
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  • Jade Marcus ... 2012/09/20 13:57:18
    Jade
    +2
    How intelligent.
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  • alegna10 2012/09/20 07:20:09
    NBC. The animal is not being harmed.
    alegna10
    +3
    A bit hypocritical of Peta considering they were exploiting women wearing foliage boobies as their advertising gimmick to go vegan! I guess that's what you call a lettuce wrap! lol
    Maybe Peta needs to chill!
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  • Jade alegna10 2012/09/20 13:54:32
    Jade
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    Hm. The women made the choice to do those things and the animals are forced...
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  • alegna10 Jade 2012/09/20 19:04:58
    alegna10
    +1
    Ummm, that's not really good comparison. Of course the woman made the choice because they gave the brain capacity to assess and chose. Animals obviously do not, but what would makes you think that if animal had the capability to CHOSE, that they wouldn't chose to do it? Which by the way, just because the women agreed to go along with their advertising gimmick, #1, doesn't mean it's right. #2, it can cause people to question their integrity, not to mention the insult to the network and current keeper suggesting that they are out causing it deliberate harm!
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  • Twinky 2012/09/20 07:19:31
    PETA. Using animals for our entertainment is wrong.
    Twinky
    +1
    PETA is a terrible horrible organisation

    BUT I disagree with non-domesticated animals being used for entertainment
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  • Derbyhat 2012/09/20 06:41:33
    NBC. The animal is not being harmed.
    Derbyhat
    +3
    Having seen the aftermath of PETA ( the original "Jackass") and the program, "Animal Practice", I have to go with the animals. In fact if PETA hired some of the animals in this TV program, they would have a higher level of intelligence to develope a smarter, more realistic agenda.
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  • Mae 2012/09/20 06:39:46
    NBC. The animal is not being harmed.
    Mae
    +5
    If PETA took Crystal monkey and returned her to her native jungle, she'd head for the first humans she could find, and wind up in a poacher's snare or stewpot. I'm all for stopping animal cruelty, of course, but animals like Crystal have a better life than she would've if she'd been born in the wild, and she's not being hurt by her trainers.
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  • darlene... Mae 2012/09/20 15:28:43
    darlenedoskas1969
    ...but PETA would never release the monkey to her native jungle... they'd just euthanize her, like they do with most of the animals they "rescue"
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  • Mae darlene... 2012/09/21 00:11:31
    Mae
    +1
    Yeah, sadly, that's true. It's sickening to think that a supposed animal welfare group could do that to all the animals they profess to have helped! As the saying goes, "With friends like these, who needs enemies?"
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  • darlene... Mae 2012/09/21 00:37:05 (edited)
    darlenedoskas1969
    ...my point exactly. :D
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  • Derbyhat Mae 2012/09/21 06:47:25
    Derbyhat
    I suppose we are lucky that Obamacare didn't mandate healthcare for animals. Couldn't you just see a baboon and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz in Group Analysis? PETA who be outraged by the decline of the baboon's self-esteem from the shunning by other baboons for associating with a such a dimwitted primate!
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  • CrazyJason 2012/09/20 06:14:56 (edited)
    NBC. The animal is not being harmed.
    CrazyJason
    +2
    This group stands for a good cause.. But when you start talking about animals being "exploited" in movies.. It becomes kinda odd. I don't think PETA would be happy unless the animal was getting a 9-figure paycheck like the rest of the actors & actresses in the film.

    However, if animals are harmed during filming.. That becomes a problem. I am 100% AGAINST poor treatment of animals. Animals are good people.
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  • Osaka CrazyJason 2012/09/20 06:22:08
    Osaka
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    Shelter animals get homes because of the industry and humane regulations.
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  • CrazyJason Osaka 2012/09/20 06:23:38
    CrazyJason
    I'm all for animals getting homes. I saved a wild kitten for my mother (which unfortunately died this year due to some complicated bladder infection)
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  • Osaka CrazyJason 2012/09/20 06:30:11
    Osaka
    Yeow, was it a lynx, bobcat, or regular domestic breed?
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  • CrazyJason Osaka 2012/09/20 06:33:12
    CrazyJason
    Idk.. Here's a picture of him.. The day I gave him to my mom as a kitten.. Still upset about it

    idk picture mom kitten
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  • Osaka CrazyJason 2012/09/20 06:47:26
    Osaka
    May have been when it was born, the environment was too unsanitary.
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  • niran jan 2012/09/20 05:57:46 (edited)
    NBC. The animal is not being harmed.
    niran jan
    +1
    PETA Kills thing is a project by Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF), which is run by lobbyist Richard Berman and is funded by KFC, Outback Steakhouse, Philip Morris, cattle ranchers, and other companies who cruelly kill millions of healthy animals every year—and who bring them into this world just to kill them. The CCF devotes considerable manpower, time, and money in an attempt to make people who care about animals believe false and misleading information about PETA's work. Like open-admission animal shelters across the country, PETA performs the heartbreaking task of euthanizing animals who are unwanted for one reason or another: because they are aggressive, sick, hurt, elderly, or at death's door and because no good homes exist for them. Front groups for animal-exploiting industries seize on this aspect of PETA's lifesaving work to further their agenda, attempt to divide the movement, and protect their profits.
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  • Jerrisophicles 2012/09/20 05:02:44
    PETA. Using animals for our entertainment is wrong.
    Jerrisophicles
    +3
    Why do so many people here think two wrongs make a right? Yes, PETA should stop killing animals. Yes, "Animal Practice" should not use animals. NBC: Please leave the animals alone.
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  • Monty Jerriso... 2012/09/20 09:26:56
    Monty
    +3
    oh jeez,they aren't hurting them
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  • Crispy 2012/09/20 04:58:09
    NBC. The animal is not being harmed.
    Crispy
    +4
    Im all for animal rights. But i think it should be taken on a case by case basis. Just because place a abuses the animal actors doesnt mean place b does. What about the cats and dogs in the food comericals? I was a member of peta until i relised how nuts they are. They are for a good cause but they go about it in the wrong way. I have a fox as a pet he was bred in captivity and would not survive in the wild. The zoo wouldnt take him and animal control would of put him down. So i took him in from his previous owner. He lives in the house is crated at night but has run most of the day we take him outside, he plays with the dogs, goes to the vet. Now peta would say he is being abused because he is not in the wild. But a sane person would see we are taking care of him and making him happy.
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  • delphidelion 2012/09/20 04:57:45 (edited)
    NBC. The animal is not being harmed.
    delphidelion
    +4
    PETA can go f*** itself. It is nothing more than a publicly funded terrorist organization that promotes the fire bombings of animal labs and pays people to do it. A** f***s.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?...
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  • BHGOzzy delphid... 2012/09/20 13:30:17
    BHGOzzy
    At least they're not the Sierra Club that bombs SUV's in Seattle while leaving MAC trucks alone.
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  • Jade delphid... 2012/09/20 13:55:29
    Jade
    +3
    If it's on the internet it must be true, right
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  • sloane.carmenlasher 2012/09/20 04:46:11
    PETA. Using animals for our entertainment is wrong.
    sloane.carmenlasher
    +3
    I f***king hate working, Im sure this monkey does too...he should be out eatin' naners with his other monkey friends
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  • BHGOzzy sloane.... 2012/09/20 13:30:41
    BHGOzzy
    +3
    Y'know, monkeys in the wild don't actually eat bananas...
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  • Lindsay Abigail 2012/09/20 04:41:29
    PETA. Using animals for our entertainment is wrong.
    Lindsay Abigail
    +3
    Go PETA. This is an aspect of animal suffering that is too often hidden from view!
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  • Monty Lindsay... 2012/09/20 09:28:05
    Monty
    +1
    huh??? what're you talking about?
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  • darlene... Lindsay... 2012/09/20 15:31:37
    darlenedoskas1969
    +2
    read up on PETA practices... supporting them is not supporting the end of animal cruelty, it's supporting euthanasia for healthy animals
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  • Skar 2012/09/20 04:29:33
    NBC. The animal is not being harmed.
    Skar
    +2
    People for the
    Eating of
    Tasty
    Animals
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  • sockpuppet 2012/09/20 04:15:00
    PETA. Using animals for our entertainment is wrong.
    sockpuppet
    +2
    Animals aren't toys or props, and they shouldn't be thought of as such.
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  • BHGOzzy sockpuppet 2012/09/20 13:31:05
    BHGOzzy
    +3
    No, but properly trained stage animals are often treated better than their human co-stars.
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  • sockpuppet BHGOzzy 2012/09/20 13:41:20
    sockpuppet
    +1
    It's the exploitative mindset that I dislike. It gives people the idea that animals are here for our amusement, to be disposed of as we please.
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  • BHGOzzy sockpuppet 2012/09/20 14:37:25
    BHGOzzy
    +1
    I agree. Thank goodness for the ASPCA and AHS.
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  • Jade BHGOzzy 2012/09/20 13:55:58
    Jade
    +1
    Pics or it didn't happen...
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  • BHGOzzy Jade 2012/09/20 14:36:56
    BHGOzzy
    +2
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  • Patriotic Gentleman 2012/09/20 04:12:27
    NBC. The animal is not being harmed.
    Patriotic Gentleman
    +5
    If PETA's against it, I'm for it. And vica versa. These people are deranged fanatics.
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