PETA now fighting for the rights of fictional elephants

“We’re hopeful that in your adaptation of Dumbo, the young elephant and his mother can have a truly happy ending by living out their lives at a sanctuary instead of continuing to be imprisoned and abused in the entertainment industry,” Lisa Lange stated in the letter on Wednesday.

Lange clarified, however, that PETA does “love the original Dumbo because it tells the story of the heartbreaking abuse that elephants in circuses endure, and we hope you will keep this storyline in the new film.”

So — she’s okay with the abuse of these (fictional) animals, but only for part of the movie but like definitely not at the end, because that apparently makes some kind of huge difference.