Duff slammed by animal rights groups

[MickBeth]

Hilary Duff is under fire from an animal rights group after scheduling tour dates at rodeos and bullfight arenas.

Duff, who was previously the darling of animal activists after launching her own line of cruelty-free cosmetics, played a run of gigs throughout last year at the Houston Rodeo in Texas, and is planning to perform at a bullfight arena in Barcelona, Spain.

But animal campaigners Showing Animals Respect And Kindness (SHARK) were disgusted by her choice of venues, and since mailed her grisly tapes of cruel behaviour in rodeos and bullfights.

SHARK president Steve Hindi tells American magazine the National Enquirer: "If she is going to play these kinds of venues, where animals are killed and cruelly treated, we are going to call her on it."

Duff's lawyer Stanton Stein responds: "After all her high-profile and generous work on behalf of animals, Ms Duff is being aggressively and unfairly singled out by a small fringe group that touts itself as an animal rights group."

http://breakingnews.iol.ie/entertain...40&p=y8z7x6446

[Mat]

Heh I hate activists, always doing something to try and force their belifes on others...

[i_survived_disturbia]

Poor Hilary! I hope everything works out fine for her.

I wonder why she decided to perform there if she's against animal cruelty?

A) She probably didn't know what venues she would be playing in.
B) She probably didn't know what those venues are used for.

Don't artists usually have people that handle the booking of venues. They're trying to make it sound like it's Hilary's fault. They're not convincing me at all. I agree with Vulture.

[P. Suvarnvasi]

Oh.....
what a pity

but i thync that she's not wrong in anyway