PETA Foundation Director Criticizing Zac Efron For “Keep It Wild” Promo

PETA Foundation Director Criticizing Zac Efron For "Keep It Wild" Promo

PETA Foundation Director Criticizing Zac Efron For “Keep It Wild” Promo!

According to reports PETA is putting Zac Efron on BLAST after appearing in an ad campaign with a bear that has spent its entire life in captivity.

 

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CelebnMusic247.com reports that the overly righteous people at PETA are claiming its Zac Efron is at fault for being in a commercial with a bear that has been in captivity his whole life.

Do they realize that the bear will not know how to live in the wilderness because it has been in captivity his whole life. That bear is safer in captivity instead of out in the wilderness where he can be shot and killed by hunters.

Debbie Metzler, PETA Foundation Director of Captive Animal Welfare says that Zac Efron to “come down to Earth” and recognize that bears belong with their families.

She needs to just STFU, but she is not.

She thinks Zac, who’s been named Chief Brand Officer for Kodiak Cakes, forgot to ask Tank the bear an important question in his latest ad for the company — “How wrong is it to use a captive bear to promote ‘keeping bears wild’?”

BTW — 27-year-old Tank was born in captivity and was taken from a breeder at just 6 weeks old … he was featured on the Discovery+ Show, “Man Vs. Bear.”

Kodiak Cakes is running a limited-time collab with Zac, where a dollar-for-dollar match of their “Keep It Wild” merch will go directly to the Vital Ground Foundation, a nonprofit that supports the preservation of wild grizzly bear habitats.

Maybe Debbie Metzler should do her fact checking instead of blaming Efron.

 

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PETA, however, clapped back at the promo saying … “It’s hypocritical to exploit one animal to potentially help another. No true conservation group would ever force captive animals to perform tricks for the camera in order to raise awareness about their wild counterparts.”

The org is calling for the ads to be removed or replaced with CGI … adding Zac should be able to make that call after taking on his influential role in the company.