PETA Pans ‘Monster Problem’ of ‘The Witcher’

For Immediate Release:
December 22, 2021

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Moira Colley 202-483-7382

Below, please find a statement from PETA Animals in Film and Television Associate Director Lauren Thomasson in response to season two of The Witcher featuring live animals:

“Netflix’s The Witcher has a monster problem, in that producers apparently monstrously chose to exploit a live lemur and squirrel monkeys, among other animals, instead of using modern and humane computer-generated imagery. The entertainment industry typically prematurely separates these animals from their mothers and thwarts their instinctual needs to explore, choose mates, raise young, and forage, which is why kind audiences should skip The Witcher and instead toss a coin to the many films and shows that feature only willing human performers.”

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to use for entertainment or abuse in any other way”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.