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Jennifer Lawrence: ‘Screw PETA’

Jennifer Lawrence

The Hunger Games star comes under fire from activists…

 

Jennifer Lawrence

The Hunger Games star Jennifer Lawrence might be

a fighter on film, but the actress might end up actually having to protect herself from a Kim Kardashian-style flour bomb as

she’s just got into a war of words with PETA.

The actress was referring to a graphic scene that she shot for

her Oscar-nominated performance in The Winter’s Bone, where she skins a squirrel.

“I should say it wasn’t

real, for PETA. But screw PETA,” she told Rolling Stone.

Once PETA had got wind of her remarks, its

president Ingrid Newkirk issued a statement which read: “She’s young and the plight of animals somehow hasn’t yet touched her

heart. As Henry David Thoreau said, ‘The squirrel you kill in jest, dies in earnest.’”

Newkirk also added: “When

people kill animals, it is the animals who are ‘screwed,’ not PETA, and one day I hope she will try to make up for any pain

she might cause any animal who did nothing but try to eke out a humble existence in nature.”

But now PETA, who

recently lost a big ally in the form of Khloe Kardashian, has decided to open its arms to Jennifer Lawrence by telling

Gossip Cop on Tuesday (April 10): “That was just a throw-away remark, and we have our bet on Jennifer ending up

joining the ranks of other young celebrities like Natalie Portman, Lea Michele, and Kellan Lutz, who are using their

influence to help animals.”

Why do you think PETA has changed its tune?

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