It's beginning to look a lot like appeasement! Auditorium agrees to animal rights group's demands

                                                                 

Grimsby Auditorium - is the management fearful of animal rights activists? 

PRESSURE from an animal rights organisation has prompted the Grimsby Auditorium to agree to withdraw the sale of pork-containing products at a show next month.

The touring production of Peppa Pig is due to be staged at the auditorium on March 3 and March 4.

The organisation, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, maintains it is inappropriate to sell pork snacks at an event where pigs are presented as cute and cuddly.

Perhaps fearing the show might be disrupted by activists, the auditorium  management has acceded to the group in the same way as was done last year by organisers of the Chichester Festival.

So far, management at the auditorium and its operators, Lincs Inspire, have been sheepish about commenting on the pork-and Peppa  issue, but say they will be taking the requested action because they want to be "considerate".                                  

The letter sent to the Auditorium by PETA

A scene from the forthcoming production