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Company's Monkey Business Is Uncreative and Cruel, Says Actress
For Immediate Release:January 27, 2012
Contact:Wendy Wegner 202-483-7382
Los Angeles -- In response to CareerBuilder's Super Bowl ad that uses a chimpanzee, actor Anjelica Huston has just fired off a letter on PETA's behalf to express her dismay that the company has used a trained chimpanzee for its most recent ad—despite having received copies of Huston's video exposé that reveals how great-ape "actors," without exception, are torn from their mothers as babies, violently trained, and then left to languish in cramped cages after they grow too large to control. Most advertising agencies and businesses—including CareerBuilder's biggest competitor, Monster—refuse to use great apes in their ads.
"It is astonishing that you are unmoved by the videos, photographs, and case reports of what befalls these animals from the moment they are taken from their mothers to the moment they die," writes Huston. "Innovative companies use animatronics or computer-generated imagery. … These chimpanzees are set to endure a lifetime of abuse for your 30-second spot—a point that no thinking person will find funny in the least."
Anjelica Huston's letter to CareerBuilder CEO Matt Ferguson can be found here. For more information, please visit PETA.org.