Ben Hur Live HURT-ing Animals With Live Shows?
Written by Vegetarian Star on September 22nd, 2009 in Animal Issues.
Ben Hur Live is on tour, making its way to several countries from now through 2010.
The show came to the O2 arena in London, and PETA took the opportunity to protest the show using over 100 live animals in the production.
PETA wrote on its blog:
“We’ve all heard that animals used for circuses are beaten, chained for up to 100 hours at a time, and carted around the country in tiny boxcars without a semblance of a natural life, but being on stage is just as terrifying and unnatural, and as I’m sure you’ve probably learned, it often ends in tragedy for the animals and the audience.”
The website for the production, Benhurlive.com, issues an Animal Protection statement, that said the production company had plans to allow an independent animal rights group to have unlimited access during rehearsals and on tour.
“We feel deeply committed to an ethical attitude towards the whole of creation,” the site says.
Read the entire animal protection statement at benhurlive.com.
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