Several animal rights groups have written the London 2012 organizers to try and persuade the director of the opening ceremony, Danny Boyle, to not use live animals.
The opening ceremony planned to use 100 farm animals in the show, but animal groups warn them they may face severe consequences.
Under the 2006 Animal Welfare Act, it is illegal to intentionally cause undue fear and distress to animals.
There are six groups in total agreement that the experience of being in the show would be "highly stressful and probably terrifying experience for them."
The groups are Animal Aid, Animal Defenders International, Captive Animals Protection Society, Compassion in World Farming, Peta and Viva.
They want Boyle to use puppets and animatronics.
The lead organizers of the Olympics said that they will be working closely with the Royal Society for the Protection of Animals to make sure the animals are "better looked after than the volunteers."
We bet it's too late at this point to just scrap the whole animal part.
Let's hope the show really conforms to all the animal laws or else Danny Boyle might have a whole lotta angry people to deal with.
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