Nickelodeon, How Could You? December 24, 2008
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So, I'm not going to lie. As a little girl, growing up as an animal lover—I loved TV shows, movies and basically anything that involved animals. Naively, that included movies with live animals. I just didn't know any better.
Just like a lot of other industries—I soon learned just how horribly animals were treated behind the scenes for our entertainment. Just learning the fact that, well you know that "cute" face that chimpanzees make in any movie you see them in, where it looks like they're smiling? Well, chimpanzees actually make that face out of terror— and that made me change my mind. Animals like tigers, monkeys, and other wild animals are often torn from their mothers arms in the wild to be forced to live lives of confinement and abuse to be trained to end up on the big screen. When animals get too big to be portrayed as cute in movies or are too large to control, they are often abandoned at roadside zoos or makeshift "sanctuaries" like the one pictured below. Please help us put an end to using animals in TV shows and movies.
Chubbs, who loved to blow kisses to our investigator at the Amarillio Wildlife Refuge, was often sad and depressed. He reportedly appeared in several episodes of Monkey Movies, on Animal Planet, and in the remake of Planet of the Apes.
We recently learned that Nickelodeon's new holiday film, Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh, features a live chimpanzee. In the film, the chimpanzee is portrayed in a demeaning way, and this teaches not only disrespect for animals, but continues to perpetuate the idea that ripping animals from the wild, where they belong, and forcing them to play ridiculous parts in movies is entertaining. Honestly, who thinks a chimpanzee riding a tricycle is entertaining? Especially knowing he's doing it because he was beaten?
Please write to Nickelodeon Executive Vice President of Programming and Planning Peter Danielsen. Ask Nickelodeon to pledge never to use great apes in any of its programs again.
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i am never watching anything on nickelodeon again until they pledge never to use live animals in their acts.
Posted by: Paige at December 24, 2008 2:29 PMThat is the way to go keep animals from being entertainment do humans they should run free in the wild not in cages scared
Posted by: Daniel at December 24, 2008 2:50 PMThat's so sad :(
Posted by: Mchll at December 24, 2008 3:59 PMi was just watching the drake and josh movie. lets just say i turned the channel. tsk tsk.
Posted by: darci at December 24, 2008 10:41 PMHumans are very closely related to chimps. Humans barely care for their fellow humans so, in a way, it doesn't surprise me that humans are cruel to chimps too.
It's totally wrong that wild animals are treated like this, let them be free and happy.
I'll do that right now. How dare they!
Posted by: Ariel at December 25, 2008 9:57 AMI am 11 years old ... and my favorite show in the world is Drake and Josh..... but now I am never watching it ever again! (but if they promise to stop using animals I will.... maybe)
Posted by: emily at December 25, 2008 5:02 PMI am dissapointed by that.....I am also really surprised.
Posted by: Taylor at December 26, 2008 2:41 PMSometimes Peta takes things over edge. Id like some proof of them doing this stuff. They might be, they might not. Im not judging until I get proof. Just my opinion.
Posted by: Me. at December 26, 2008 4:57 PMIt's very sad and wrong to mistreat animals for human entertainment.But are there any videos or anything to show what theyre doing?But either way,the chimp in the picture looks rather upset.:[
Posted by: William at December 26, 2008 8:53 PMAnother reason why I hate most Television shows and stars.
Posted by: Willy at December 26, 2008 11:32 PMwow...i can't believe this...it makes me want to cry..
Posted by: Christina at December 26, 2008 11:44 PMWTF!And I love Drake and Josh.GGrrr.Well I guess I wont be watching it anymore.=(
Posted by: Jasmine at December 27, 2008 12:02 PMawwwwwww thats sad.......
Posted by: jessicavilla at December 27, 2008 1:21 PMThis is just...evil. How could a person/people be so disrespectful to a cute,human/like creature?
Posted by: Sierra at December 27, 2008 3:46 PMIn this world... there is real evil. How can someone hurt a chimpanzee,that is very much like human?
Posted by: Steven at December 27, 2008 3:50 PMthis is just sad and wrong. I used to watch a lot of Nickelodeon but now I've stopped until they treat animals with respect and not just on the air respect.
Posted by: Olivia at December 28, 2008 5:51 AMHi I am Raquel and I am 9 years old. My favorite show is iCarly. I'm going to stop watching it cause they use animals quite a bit in it. And I'm going to tell all my friends about this website so they see how important animals are.
Posted by: Raquel at December 28, 2008 4:26 PMFor goodness sakes, this article doesn't even have any evidence the Chimpanzee was mistreated. Present some hard evidence, and don't to the fundamentally weak argument that it is, "Demeaning," unless you have actual proof. This is a broad, uneducated statement, and unless you have hard proof of mistreatment, don't go around screaming accusations. It's very unprofessional and harmful to the already low ebb of Peta's reputation.
Posted by: Avery at December 28, 2008 4:31 PMHow do you know that this "Rachel" person didnt just find a chimp and she threw it in a dark room and throwin stuff at the poor creature and maybe she has strong feelings against Drake and Josh.You can't belive everything that you see or hear. And I really care for animals( and i know for a fact that circus's abuse animals but any proof bout t.v?), but how do you know that she didnt just throw stuff around @ the chimp and take a pic and/or she abused it instead of the crew?She can't prove everything.She can say it but is it true?
And also if the actors like monkeys(like Miranda and Drake and Josh) do u honestly think they would let that happen to them? I think not
THERE ABSOLUTLEY NO PROOF!!!
Posted by: Nikki at December 28, 2008 5:55 PMThat F****** sucks.... I aint watching Nick untill they pledge to stop using great apes... serously... i think its potition time again
Posted by: Allan at December 29, 2008 10:21 AMI hated that movie anyway... now I know that Hollywood is not only full of retarded, rich, snobby drug addict prostitutes but it is also full of animal abusers.
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this is hideous
Posted by: katie at December 24, 2008 1:31 PM):
i love great apes