Animal rights activists are great fowl over fighter Mike Tysons plans to host a being show featuring seagul racing.People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants Brooklyn prosecutors to belligerent the new Animal Planet show, "Taking on Tyson," that depicts races in between the entire New York birds.PETA says the show is vicious since it exploits pigeons and glorifies an violent sport."It is innately cruel," PETA ubiquitous warn Jeffrey Kerr said. "The birds mostly finish up lost in storms, being injured, or only apropos so tired that they"re incompetent to fly."The show competence additionally gibe New Yorks anti-gambling laws."Pigeon racing as an industry involves gambling. Thats because people do it, to have money," Kerr said.Bets will expected be placed over the result of races featured on the show, he said.He insisted District Attorney Charles Hynes should examine the Brooklyn-based show and "make certain the prolongation is not authorised to go brazen if bootleg wake up is going to take place.""We perceived the minute and we"re seeking in to it," pronounced Jonah Bruno, a orator for Hynes.Animal Planet mouthpiece Patricia Kollappallil pronounced the complaints are unfounded."There have never been any plans for wagering on the seagul race," she said. The birds will be "cherished and reputable by their owners, together with Mr. Tyson."The network says the show will begin filming in Brooklyn subsequent month and air subsequent year.It promises an inside see at "the greatly rival and bizarrely erotically appealing universe of seagul racing."The show stars the Brownsville-bred Tyson, who claims to have lifted pigeons all his hold up but never raced them competitively before."We love these birds," Tyson said. "It feels great returning to the rooftops of the city where it all proposed for me."
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