PETA Releases Photos and Video Footage Showing Behind-the-Scenes Suffering of Social, Smart Apes
For Immediate Release:
February 28, 2011
Contact:
Ashley Gonzalez 757-622-7382
Chicago--Holding signs that read, "CareerBuilder: Retire Ape 'Actors,'" PETA members will gather in front of CareerBuilder's Chicago headquarters on Tuesday to protest the company's use of infant great apes in its ads. PETA recently learned that Steve Martin's Working Wildlife—a company with a long history of cruelty to animals—supplied the chimpanzees who were used in CareerBuilder's latest ad. The protesters will share photos that show the squalid roadside zoos where Martin dumped chimpanzees when they grew too strong to handle. They will also screen an exposé hosted by Anjelica Huston that reveals how young chimpanzees used in movies, TV, and ads are traumatically taken away from their mothers and abused during training.
"If Martin's record is any indication, the infant chimpanzees used in CareerBuilder's latest commercial will end up living in squalor—in concrete pits or inadequate enclosures—within a year or two," says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. "If CareerBuilder has any compassion, it will stop using great apes in its ads."
CareerBuilder's biggest competitor, Monster, has made the kind decision not to use great apes in ads. Many other companies—including Dodge, Verizon Wireless, Gap Inc., Levi Strauss & Co., Johnson & Johnson, Europcar, Samsung, Yahoo!, and Honda—have all pulled ads that featured great apes or pledged never to feature great apes in future ads.
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