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December 19, 2023
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New York – Pushing coal-filled wheelbarrows, a bevy of PETA “elves” will descend on Radio Metropolis Music Corridor on Thursday to make a pointed attraction for the Christmas Spectacular to cease utilizing dwell camels, sheep, and donkeys in its Nativity scene, a follow that started earlier than individuals realized that the animals are needlessly burdened throughout transport and by being plonked down into an unfamiliar surroundings and subjected to giant crowds and loud noises.
When: Thursday, December 21, 7 p.m.
The place: Outdoors Radio Metropolis Music Corridor, 1260 Sixth Ave. (between 50th and 51st streets), New York
PETA’s “elves” may also level out that it’s extremely anxious and complicated for animals to be saved backstage like props—and that the Christmas Spectacular companions with infamous animal exhibitor Daybreak Animal Company, whose many citations for violating the federal Animal Welfare Act embrace failing to keep up enough veterinary packages and housing animals in cluttered, broken, and grime-filled enclosures.
“Radio Metropolis Music Corridor deserves coal in its stocking for not evolving with the instances and nonetheless dragging stressed-out animals throughout its stage this December,” says PETA Govt Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA is looking on the stage present to make Santa’s ‘good’ listing by kicking off a kinder, animal-free manufacturing.”
A camel tied up backstage at Radio Metropolis Music Corridor. Credit score: PETA
PETA—whose motto reads, partially, that “animals should not ours to make use of for leisure”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview.
For extra info, please go to PETA.org, hearken to The PETA Podcast, or observe the group on X (previously Twitter), Fb, or Instagram.
