Alec Baldwin shouldn’t be completely happy about dwell animals getting used within the Radio Metropolis Christmas Spectacular‘s Nativity scene.
In a letter written on behalf of Folks for the Moral Remedy of Animals (PETA), the actor and producer requested Madison Sq. Backyard Leisure Company CEO James Dolan to cease utilizing donkeys, camels and sheep as a part of the yearly musical present.
“The Christmas Spectacular already options extraordinarily gifted human performers, and reinventing the enduring present to be animal-free would convey it into the fashionable period and actually align it with the Christmas spirit,” Baldwin wrote in a letter obtained by The Every day Mail.
“Please be certain that this 12 months’s present would be the final that makes use of animals and provides this archaic apply a excessive kick out of your manufacturing and into the historical past books.”
Baldwin went on to notice that “Vacation shows and productions are something however merry for animals who are sometimes disadvantaged of every little thing that’s pure and essential to them.”
He confused that dwell exhibits are dangerous for animals who’re compelled to be “hauled from metropolis to metropolis in cramped vehicles, saved in again room like props and subjected to loud sounds and disorienting lights.”
Baldwin additionally stated that the Daybreak Animal Company, which gives animals for movie, tv and different productions, has been cited by the US Division of Agriculture for allegedly denying the creatures requirements like clear enclosures, house and veterinary care.
In a assertion to The New York Publish, an MSG spokesperson denied that Radio Metropolis will get its animals from Daybreak Animal Company.
“The protection of the animals within the Christmas Spectacular’s beloved ‘Dwelling Nativity’ scene is all the time our precedence,” the spokesperson stated. “Their well-being is essential, and they’re supplied with distinctive round the clock care all through the present’s restricted run.”
