Ringling Bros. Elephant Abuse on Tape
PETA has just filed charges against Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus for violating Connecticut’s cruelty-to-animals statute.
What did Ringling Bros. do?
…trainers and other employees routinely struck elephants with bullhooks, dug the weapons’ sharp metal hooks into the sensitive skin behind elephants’ knees and under their trunks, and whipped both elephants and tigers.
Circuses really make me feel ill. Carting animals all around the country and making them perform. No one can ever convince me that an elephant can have any quality of life while stuck in a pen, traveling via train and being beaten with a bull hook. I really don’t know how parents think it’s okay to take their kids to the circus for a day of family fun. Perhaps they just don’t know about the atrocities. At least, I hope that’s true. That they just don’t know. In that case, it’s AR’s job (as well as our job) to do a better job getting the info out there. Good job to PETA for getting this on tape.
Read the full press release on PETA’s actions here…
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