Posted by Tina
Despite the declaration at the end of all movies with animals in them that, “no animal has been harmed in the making of this film,” a report has emerged that paints a much different and gruesome picture. John Nolte of Breitbart picks up on the story exploded today on the pages of “The Hollywood Reporter”:
Charges of improper coziness between the AHA and the entertainment business have been raised before. The arrangement by which the Film & TV Unit’s budget has been mostly financed — through what is currently a $2.4 million grant administered by two trade groups, the recently merged SAG-AFTRA actors’ union and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers via its shared Industry Advancement and Cooperative Fund — long has been criticized for the inherent conflict of interest present in Hollywood bankrolling its regulator. (The IACF is endowed as part of the producers’ obligation to the actors’ union.)
This unique compact, in which a nonprofit has taken on the role of a regulator of industry in lieu of more traditional, government oversight — and therefore is not subject to public disclosure laws, allowing its work to mostly remain shrouded in secrecy — means the AHA is accountable only to Hollywood itself.
Nolte writes, “According to THR’s sources (current and former AHA employees; leaked documents and emails), this coziness has resulted in more than just looking the other way; cover ups are standing operating procedure and one AHA official alleges she was fired for attempting to protect animals from mistreatment on the set of the HBO series Luck.”
Honesty and integrity are in short supply these days…lefty organizations that are supposed to be protecting animals may be one of the lowest examples if these allegations are true.