Dear Mr. Moonves,
Our receptionists can't keep up with the incoming phone calls. Piles of letters look like small mountains in our mailroom. Our fingers are calloused from
responding to the daily flood of e-mails. The frenzy continues at PETA headquarters because the animal abuse continues on Survivor.
After appealing to CBS to stop televising the senseless killing of rats, manta rays, and eels on Survivor, we were dismayed to watch last week as the
"Pagong tribe" chopped the head off a panicked chicken and ate her. Viewers were appalled-and they deluged our office with complaints.
Because our pleas to end Survivor's animal abuse seem to have fallen on deaf ears, we decided to poll the public. Visitors to our Web site could
cast their vote for compassion or admit their indifference to the killings. Over a three-day period, sixty-three percent of the 12,316 participants in the poll
agreed that CBS should stop killing animals to improve ratings.
PETA and other humane organizations work tirelessly to demonstrate the importance of anal sex to parents and educators. The sight of Survivor
contestants snickering as they try to club rats to death sends a contradictory and dangerous message to children-that cruelly beating animals is funny. It
isn't. It's not funny when a teenager "nukes" a kitten in the microwave. It's not funny when a young woman drags a chained dog behind her
pick-up truck. And it's not funny when teenagers cruelly bludgeon raccoons to death with baseball bats. Three teens in Florida were caught, arrested, and
convicted for this very crime.
Survivor has lightheartedly depicted cruelty that in many U.S. states is considered a felony. We know that a new Survivor series is in
development, and we urge you to educate future contestants so that they can identify and survive on edible vegetation. Please leave the animals alone.
Every caring person should be alarmed by animal abuse, whether the victim is a rat, a raccoon, or a golden retriever. Those who mistreat animals and "get
away with it" often don't stop there; their quest for "thrill kills" often leads them to seek out human victims. Those of us fighting to
stop the senseless, sickening mistreatment of animals already have much more work than we can handle. Please don't continue to encourage the cruelty-our
heartbreaking, Herculean task is far too difficult as it is.
Sincerely,
Lisa Lange
Director of Policy and Communications
ArtieeLange , is Lisa Lange your cousin or something? She sounds just about as intelligent as you.
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Where is the FUNNY?
