PETA Files Complaint Over Ad Featuring Parakeets

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals filed a complaint against Samsung in India over an advertisement for Samsung’s X200 mobile phone.

The advertisement shows two children releasing a couple parakeets from their cage. But according to PETA coordinator N G Jayashimha,

The parakeets used in the advertisement are protected under the Wildlife (Protection) Act (WPA) 1972. Trading, trafficking, caging or displaying the birds is banned.

Source:

Animal activists go cuckoo over bird ad. Prashant Shankarnarayan, Mid-Day.Com, January 4, 2006.

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  1. Dear Sir,
    I want to complaint regarding a COW which has been throughen by his owner in a open area where she is laying from last one weeks and she is at the door of death because of no food , no water, and also other birds are eating her flush and she could not do any thing because she can not stand on her leg, this is no thing but his owners does not want to give her treatment, and after finish her requirment this cow has been trhoughen by him.

    please do needfull immediate. the address of that place is as below..

    Darshan vihar cololy
    opposite Vardan Mandap
    Banna Devi (Polish Station range)
    District : Aligarh
    State:- Utter Pradesh
    INDIA

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