Animal Welfare Concerns
Sid Yost, of Amazing Animal Productions, who also goes by the name Ranger Rick Kelly, supplied chimpanzees for some of the Trunk Monkey ads. Sarah Baeckler, a primatologist, conducted an undercover investigation at Yost’s training facility. She reported that "The trainers use physical force to train the chimps and other animals as well but they punch them they kick them. They use weapons such as a sawed off broom handle that they called the ugly stick." Yost surrendered his chimpanzees and agreed to no longer work with non-human primates in settlement of a lawsuit alleging violations of the Animal Welfare Act and California Anti-Cruelty laws. Because of this, and other suspected abuses of chimpanzees used in these ads, animal rights group PETA has asked R-West to cancel the series of commercials.
Read more about this topic: Trunk Monkey
Famous quotes containing the words animal, welfare and/or concerns:
“When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.”
—Ernest Becker (1924–1974)
“Power has only one duty—to secure the social welfare of the People.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)
“The country is fed up with children and their problems. For the first time in history, the differences in outlook between people raising children and those who are not are beginning to assume some political significance. This difference is already a part of the conflicts in local school politics. It may spread to other levels of government. Society has less time for the concerns of those who raise the young or try to teach them.”
—Joseph Featherstone (20th century)