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PETA to Tom Cruise: Bulls in Pamplona Suffer, 'Knight and Day'
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Alarms went off at PETA when we learned that filming for Tom Cruise's upcoming movie, Knight and Day, included the use of live animals to recreate Pamplona's infamous and cruel Running of the Bulls. The Mirror reports that seven bulls used for the production in Spain escaped and injured two women.
We hope that Mr. Cruise will share our concerns when he learns how animals suffer in the annual Running of the Bulls. As human runners and spectators gouge the bulls with sticks and pull their tails, many bulls slip on the pavement and/or slam into buildings, breaking their horns and legs. In their desperate attempts to escape their tormenters, bulls sometimes gore and trample people. As if that weren't enough cruelty, bulls later dragged into the bullrings are repeatedly stabbed and bled to weaken them by bullfighters who sever the animals' spines while the animals are fully conscious.
Will Tom Cruise do as we've asked and use his influence and help bulls by encouraging producers to cut the scene from the film? I believe that PETA's effort is definitely a Mission ImPossible. What do you think?
Updates will follow.
Posted by Karin Bennett
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Tom Cruise, i'm a fan of you and a friend of animals!I hope that you'r influence and help bulls by encouraging producers to cut the scene from the film 'Knight and Day'!
Posted by: Thea Spaanstra | November 30, 2009 03:23 PM
Does Tom Cruise still have earthly value?
Posted by: Brien Comerford | November 30, 2009 08:42 PM
Mr. Cruise,
Perhaps a reminder from Gandhi at this time.... "Be the change you wish to see in the world...."
A fan of you and all sentient beings.
MM
Posted by: madeleine Marentette | November 30, 2009 09:18 PM
Tom Cruise is an amazing human being and I hope he gets the message about the bulls' suffering.
Posted by: Curtis Taylor | December 1, 2009 09:45 AM
I certainly would hope that Tom Cruise would be aware of animals rights, after all this is the 21st century. Haven't we all learned something about life and pain and suffering? Come on Tom, I've always loved you and your films, don't blow your image now!!
Posted by: jsmnvaught@yahoo.com | December 23, 2009 10:00 AM