ITALIAN ANIMAL RIGHTS GROUP CALL FOR DIRECTOR'S ARREST OVER

[Vegan Joe]

http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/story/italian-animal-rights-group-call-for-directors-arrest-over-bull-slaughter-scene_1118022

 

Italy's entry for the Best Foreign Film prize at the 2010 Oscars is at the centre of a new animal cruelty controversy.

Officials at the country's National Association for Animal Protection (ENPA) are calling for censors to pull Giuseppe Tornatore's film Baaria from cinemas over a gruesome bull slaughter scene.

ENPA leader Carla Rocchi has filed a complaint calling the scene, in which a bull has its throat slit while still alive, "senseless cruelty." ...