HBO faces music after the death of two horses on the sets of ‘Luck’ but refuses to budge from its stance
Death of two horses on the HBO sets while filming the racetrack drama, ‘Luck’, has not gone unnoticed and has been agitated upon by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
While filming the series, the horses endured injuries after which they had to be euthanized. The deaths were a year apart, first one in 2010 and the next in 2011.
HBO has strengthened its stance by emphasizing that it works in collaboration with American Humane Association thus any allegations as to be atrocious with the animals just does not make sense.
American Humane Association is a wing that has been established by the entertainment industry itself for the interest of the animals that are used while filming.
There is a continual revision of the safety provisions for the horses on the set that range from expert veterinarian to X-rays machines.
"From the very outset of this project, the safety of the animals was of paramount concern to us," HBO said in a statement. "Recent assertions of lax attitudes or negligence could not be further from the truth."
Dr. Rick Arthur who is the equine medical director for the California Horse Racing Board, has taken decisive sides with HBO and went on to saying that the horse racing industry itself should keep HBO’s safeguard standards as their own benchmark.
Due to the intense uproar over the death of the two thoroughbred horses, the American Humane Association demanded the production to stop rolling at Santa Anita Park in the Arcadian suburban. It was made sure that the filming resumed only after the necessary
precautions and standards were upgraded.
Besides the horses are not even being raced at the actual distances, the computer generated special effects are frequently used to conjure the scenes that are the closest to the scenarios that are intended to be put forth.
The measures however have not helped diminishing the rising concerns as the President of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Kathy Guillermo said:
“Breakdowns don't just happen. They happen every day, obviously, but they don’t happen in the absence of conditions that create them. Horses break down for a reason. Often, it has to do with the condition they're in at the time they're put on the track.”
She further insisted that the conditions throughout the industry were substandard and that taking the life of an animal for narrating stories that are mostly fictions is not justified in any manner (even if they were non-fiction). Her anxiety regarding the
issue is beyond the life of the two horses because it is a plague that has engulfed the entire industry that is truly ruthless towards the animals that they are filming with.
The case with HBO has not been concluded or put to rest as the production giant refuses and denies all the accusations that have been brought its way.
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