Seattle Mariners' Monkey Business
 Wednesday, May 20th, 2009  by Connie T.

For the love of baseball...this needs to stop! The Seattle Mariners Major League baseball team has been airing a commercial called "The Secret" featuring a chimpanzee. While chimps look really cute smiling and performing antics, the sad news is that in order to learn these feats they are taken from their mothers as babes, and routinely physically abused (you don't want the details) in order to be trained.

Once they turn 8 years old they become to aggressive to be used for the entertainment industry and are sent to warehouses, cages, or if their lucky a haven where they're lonely and secluded from any environment they've known.

PETA saw the Mariners' commercial and contacted the team: they refused to pull the commercial or even meet to discuss the issue. In recent months, companies like Gap, Inc., Levi Strauss, and Johnson & Johnson have pledged not to use captive apes for their advertising campaigns after finding out how the animals are exploited and abused for media. Sadly, the Mariners have not yet agreed to do the same.


Please go here and send your message to the Seattle Mariners, asking them not to use entertainment at the expense of chimps.

Anjelica Huston speaks out for Great Apes, via PETA

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