Sunday’s episode of HBO’s “Silicon Valley” included an eye-poppingly graphic scene of two horses having sex, but PETA was not amused.
In fact, the animal-rights group denounced the widespread practice of breeding Thoroughbreds depicted in the episode as “arranged rape.”
“It may seem fun, but the mares are tethered during the process, often with head ropes, with no means of escape, and the stallions are put on a lead rope and dragged to the mares to be mounted: neither the stallions or mares have any choice, it’s assembly line breeding for profit,” PETA Senior Vice President Lisa Lange said in a statement to TheWrap.