PETA Accuses ‘Will Trent’ Trainers of Animal Neglect

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• realcaseyrollins ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  AFA, which is run out of a 68-acre ranch, said the bedding allegation “is just categorically false unless bedding was removed by the PETA representative,” and insisted that “dogs are brought inside during temperature extremes.” As for nutrition deprivation, that’s “not our policy,” the company claimed, and with regards to the pigs in question, AFA noted they’re under vet care for arthritis and have been prescribed an anti-inflammatory drug. AFA added that its employees witnessed the PETA operative “withholding the prescribed medication” from the pigs.

  Oh boy. I'm really interested in seeing the truth behind these claims.

  I recently started watching the series and it's by far the highest quality broadcast show I've seen in a LONG time.

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Considering it’s peta, I always take anything they say with a grain of salt. They do more bad than good for making humane treatment of animals happen.

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    • realcaseyrollins ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Generally I agree, however they did say that they recorded audio and video of the incidents, which could be legit depending on what they were able to get on tape.

      Reading between the lines it kinda sounds to me though that the PETA person was mistreating the animals, tried to get others to do the same, got busted and fired for it, and now PETA is launching this whole campaign to save face. I could be completely wrong though.
• flumph@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  PETA has ties to a terrorist organization, has previously kidnapped and euthanized pets, advocates for the extinction of domesticated animals, and has at least one executive who used animal-derived insulin despite their campaigns against the very same.

  I see no reason to give them the benefit of the doubt in any of their publicity stunts. Wake me up when a legitimate organization working for animal welfare has concerns.

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• autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is the best summary I could come up with:

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  Then the activist group filed a Feb. 21 complaint with the U.S. Department of Agriculture alleging violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

  It also counters that it has evidence it will share with the federal agency that, in at least one instance, the clandestine operative failed to adequately provide medication to a pair of elderly pigs — which the organization denies.

  By PETA’s account, its probe — which included surreptitiously recorded audio and video — found that AFA, among other purported issues, didn’t provide dogs with proper bedding or heated housing, intentionally deprived cats and other animals of nutrition as a training tactic and failed to offer adequate medical treatment to pigs who walked on overgrown hooves.

  As for the anti-inflammatory drug, PETA insisted its insider never missed a dose he’d been assigned to provide and even at one point notified an AFA supervisor that the medication had run out.

  PETA also contended that dogs left in outdoor kennels when the temperature dropped to unsafe levels had previously been utilized on Universal Pictures’ Strays, released in August 2023.

  In 2017, the group filed a complaint with the USDA against the industry’s top training firm, California-based Birds & Animals Unlimited — a business partner of AFA — based on explosive claims from a whistleblower who’d secretly gathered evidence of alleged mistreatment while working there.

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