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Victory!<\/strong> American Greetings, the second-largest greeting card company in the world, has confirmed that it no longer sells greeting cards with demeaning images of endangered chimpanzees.<\/p>\n

This exciting development follows years of pressure on American Greetings from PETA to ban such cards\u2014including tens of thousands of e-mails and calls from our supporters, demonstrations at the company\u2019s headquarters, and a protest at the home of its CEO, Joe Arcuri. Chris Palmer<\/a>, an Emmy Award\u2013winning wildlife documentary producer, previously sent a letter<\/a> on PETA\u2019s behalf to Arcuri, urging him to end the company\u2019s sale of cards that feature \u201cinappropriate, inaccurate, and unethical\u201d images of great apes, such as chimpanzees wearing costumes or holding hands with humans.<\/p>\n

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American Greetings joins top stock-image agencies, including Dreamstime, Getty Images, and Shutterstock, that are banning the commercial use of inappropriate images of chimpanzees, as well as major retailers such as CVS and Rite Aid, which have taken action to remove these damaging greeting cards after hearing from PETA.<\/p>\n

Chimpanzees may face extinction within our lifetime, and greeting cards featuring clownish images of them are hurting conservation efforts. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Studies have shown that frivolous staged images of chimpanzees wearing costumes, displayed in studios, or interacting with humans mislead consumers to believe that these animals are prevalent in nature rather than endangered. They also increase the black market demand for great apes as \u201cpets\u201d\u2014driving them even further toward extinction.<\/p>\n

PETA is calling on Hallmark\u2014the last major card company still selling cards featuring clownish images of great apes\u2014to follow American Greetings and stop producing these cards. <\/h3>\n

Chimpanzees need to be protected, not made the butt of a joke. Making a mockery of them is a form of speciesism\u2014the misguided belief that other animals are less deserving just because of their species.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t

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