{"id":8673,"date":"2021-06-03T09:59:58","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T16:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=8673"},"modified":"2023-01-16T00:19:26","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T08:19:26","slug":"peta-accuses-bts-of-contributing-to-animal-abuse-after-mcdonalds-collaboration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/peta-accuses-bts-of-contributing-to-animal-abuse-after-mcdonalds-collaboration\/","title":{"rendered":"PETA accuses BTS of contributing to animal abuse after McDonald&#8217;s collaboration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PETA<\/strong> (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) accused <strong>BTS<\/strong> via social media of contributing to animal cruelty due to their promotions for McDonald&#8217;s. The BTS x McDonald&#8217;s collaboration meal officially launched on May 26, and the international fast food chain also released a commercial with the <strong>Big Hit Music<\/strong> group.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after, PETA Asia began accusing BTS of promoting cruelty to animals.<\/p>\n<p> The animal rights organization posted a picture on their Instagram account in which they said: &#8220;<strong><em>The association with McDonald&#8217;s on BTS&#8217;s food shows that BTS doesn&#8217;t care about<\/em> chickens that suffer and cut their throats by McNuggets. Promote love, not cruelty!<\/strong>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PETAAsia\/status\/1399327453605023745\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BTS <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bts_bighit?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@bts_bighit<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BTS_twt?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@BTS_twt<\/a>, don\u2019t let your fans down. Stop promoting dead chickens! \ud83d\ude14<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BTSMeal?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#BTSMeal<\/a> at McDonald\u2019s includes chicken nuggets that are made from the flesh of tortured birds.<\/p>\n<p>Chickens are not nuggets, but rather living, feeling beings. \ud83d\udc9b <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CiOKHChZCc\">https:\/\/t.co\/CiOKHChZCc<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BTS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#BTS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yPLTq5ASeP\">pic.twitter.com\/yPLTq5ASeP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; PETA Asia (@PETAAsia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PETAAsia\/status\/1399327453605023745?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 31, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The organization also shared on their Twitter an image of a fan holding a sign that reads: \u201c<em><strong>This fan was disappointed. BTS, stop promoting dead chickens!<br \/>C<br \/>\n<br \/><\/strong><\/em>&#8221; However, other BTS fans are also citing PETA&#8217;s supposedly questionable treatment of animals. What do you think of the PETA post?<\/p>\n<p> <strong><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In other BTS-related news, the group hasn&#8217;t stopped thanking <strong>ARMY<\/strong> for giving them the first spot on the <strong>Billboard Hot 100<\/strong> this week with the single &#8220;Butter&#8221; As soon as the rankings were shown, the group took to Twitter to post two new celebratory selfies!<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BTS_twt\/status\/1399761155753758726\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udc9c x7 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3o9VDjIU1w\">pic.twitter.com\/3o9VDjIU1w<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \ubc29\ud0c4\uc18c\ub144\ub2e8 (@BTS_twt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BTS_twt\/status\/1399761155753758726?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 1, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>Butter<\/strong>&#8221; completed a week of its release on Friday, May 27 and, in addition to the top of the Billboard chart, it also obtained major marks on Spotify and five <strong>Guinness World Records<\/strong>. It was no surprise when BTS appeared on Twitter to celebrate their recent achievement with fans! They first posted a photo of V with the \u201cButter\u201d logo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) accused BTS via social media of contributing to animal cruelty due to their promotions for McDonald&#8217;s. The BTS x McDonald&#8217;s collaboration meal officially launched on May 26, and the international fast food chain also released a commercial with the Big Hit Music group. Soon after, PETA Asia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3106,"featured_media":8674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[49],"class_list":{"0":"post-8673","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kpop","8":"tag-bts"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}