14 DAY TRIAL // Green group PETA is asking people to think twice before going to see “The Lone Ranger.” The organization maintains that, as scenes in the movie clearly show, horses were put in grave danger during filming.
Therefore, those who hold animals close at heart have no business going to the cinema and watching a movie that clearly goes against their life principles.
“During filming, a horse almost drowned after being forced to swim across the rain-swollen Colorado River and being swept downstream.”
“The horse was saved only because a production crew was in a pontoon boat downriver and someone was able to throw a lasso around the animal's head and pull the horse ashore,” PETA writes in a blogpost.
PETA is convinced that horses are often hurt or even killed when used to shoot movie scenes, because people in the entertainment industry are clueless about how they are supposed to treat them.
“While horses are domesticated and therefore more easily trained than exotic animals, many people involved in the film industry are unfamiliar with their behavior and needs and therefore make demands on them that are stressful, uncomfortable, and downright dangerous,” the animal rights activists say.