{"id":204811,"date":"2010-01-20T17:59:02","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T22:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=89532"},"modified":"2010-01-20T17:59:02","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T22:59:02","slug":"james-cameron-wins-peta-proggy-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/204811","title":{"rendered":"James Cameron Wins PETA Proggy Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

The animal rights zealots at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals have honored critically-acclaimed director James Cameron with their annial Proggy Award for Outstanding Feature Film for his work in the sci-fi blockbuster Avatar<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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PETA granted Cameron the Proggy — short for progress — after falling in love with Avatar’s<\/em> message about “the importance of treating all living beings, no matter how ’strange’ or ‘alien,’ with respect and dignity.”<\/p>\n

“We hope viewers will come away from ‘Avatar’ with a new way of looking at the world around them and the way we treat our fellow earthlings,”<\/em> PETA Senior Vice President Lisa Lange said in a statement. “For helping animals with the positive message of this film, James Cameron is PETA’s ‘King of the World.’”<\/em><\/p>\n

“Viewers will recognize how the plight of Avatar’s catlike Na’vi people, who are faced with being driven off their land by a greedy corporation, closely echoes the real-life plight of animals on earth, many of whom continue to be torn away from their homes and families and locked up in cages in zoos, circuses, and laboratories,”<\/em> organization president Ingrid Newkirk added. “PETA also applauds the movie’s stunning special effects, which beautifully illustrate how unnecessary it is to subject animals to the stress of a film production.” <\/em><\/p>\n

Avatar<\/em> has grossed more than $1.6 billion worldwide.<\/p>\n

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