PETA keep watching people’s attitudes to animals and try again and again to provoke the sense of compassion to those who cannot protect themselves. Another venture of the organisation intended to appeal humans to stop the violence towards animals was the photo shoot that features model Joanna Krupa.
The ad campaign titled Be an Angel for Animals shows Krupa posing inside a cathedral wearing nothing but a pair of angel wings. Her beautiful body is covered only by a big crucifix. Another picture features the girl with a puppy in her hands.
The campaign was organized to support PETA’s efforts to promote the adoption of homeless animals rather than buying pets from specialized stores, because each time a pet is bought from a store, another little one roaming the streets loses its chance to find a good home.
Joanna says:
You know, we’re trying to spread the word that breeding isn’t the way to go. Somebody needs to put their foot down and stop this breeding and these puppy mills. They’re in these little tiny cages, and all they’re doing is breeding their whole life. It makes me so angry that our government doesn’t do anything about it. So I am!”
The campaign is very important in terms of protecting animals. But the pictures themselves are under a question and widely critisized. Catholic activists say the ads “exploit Christian symbols.”
It’s totally inappropriate,” InsideCatholic.com Publisher Dean Hudson comments. “It’s another instance of disrespect toward Christianity and another example of the kind of abuse that would never occur with any other major religion, because the outcry would be so immediate and so loud that the people behind it would immediately retreat.”
Catholic League President Bill Donohue considers this campaign ridiculous as “cats and dogs are a lot safer in pet stores than they are in the hands of PETA employees.”
He added:
Pet stores don’t rip off Christian iconography and engage in cheap irreligious scams.”
Krupa couldn’t stand aside of this criticism:
As a practicing Catholic, I am shocked that the Catholic League is speaking out against my PETA ads, which I am very proud of. I’m doing what the Catholic Church should be doing, working to stop senseless suffering of animals, the most defenseless of god’s creation.”
The idea might be interesting, of course, but they shouldn’t have touched religion in the ads. In my opinion, it was a true profanity to cover a nude body with a cross, and even taking such raunchy pictures in a religious place is not a good thing. What do you think?
even though i’m not christian let alone catholic…i think this is outrageous. a naked model is definitely not the way to go when it comes to saving animals… and using religion here is ridiculous. PETA should find better ways to do this than use raunchy/vulgar pictures. i’m absolutely disgusted… how do you expect to create awareness in such a desperate way???? sober up jeez