You skin a squirrel, and you better know PETA is coming after you.

Hunger Games star Jennifer Lawrence is learning that the hard way after she revealed that gruesome scene in Winter’s Bone where she skinned a squirrel was the real thing. Asked about shooting that part of the film in an interview, the Kentucky native remarked, “I should say it wasn’t real, for PETA. But screw PETA.”

Someone should have told Lawrence you can’t say screw PETA and not expect to get flour bombed — or at least told off. In response, PETA president Ingrid Newkirk issued this statement:

[Lawrence] is young and the plight of animals somehow hasn’t yet touched her heart. As Henry David Thoreau said, ‘The squirrel you kill in jest, dies in earnest.’

We are told that this squirrel was hit by a car, but when people kill animals, it is the animals who are ‘screwed,’ not PETA, and one day I hope she will try to make up for any pain she might have caused any animal who did nothing but try to eke out a humble existence in nature.

Remember that next time you’re driving down a winding road in the middle of a hail storm and one of Alvin’s cousins decides to dart out in front of your 2012 Porsche Cayenne.