PETA: Drive-by elephant to Wisconsin Historical Society: stop exploiting me!

Madison, Wis. — An ailing elephant named Isa utilized by Circus World Museum is haunting Madison-area buses to induce the ability’s operator, the domestically based mostly Wisconsin Historic Society, to reject all animal acts forward of the circus’s first present of the season, on Could 20. The adverts function a photograph of Isa from a PETA investigation that exposed that Circus World—which makes use of an elephant exhibitor who has incurred greater than 100 violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act—compelled geriatric elephants to carry out grueling tips in reveals twice a day, each day, whereas they suffered from chronically swollen toes and introduced indicators of different painful foot and joint issues, that are among the many main causes captive elephants are euthanized.

“Circus World forces geriatric elephants to carry out demeaning tips, stand on concrete all evening whereas chained by their legs, and undergo by means of probably agonizing joint ache,” says PETA Basis Affiliate Director of Captive Animal Regulation Enforcement Debbie Metzler. “PETA is asking on everybody to steer clear of Circus World and to help animal-free acts by which human expertise takes heart stage.”

Circus World makes use of elephant acts offered by Carson & Barnes Circus, whose head coach was caught on digicam instructing different trainers to sink a bullhook—a weapon resembling a fire poker with a pointy hook on one finish—into elephants’ flesh and twist it till they screamed. Amongst different violations, the U.S. Division of Agriculture has cited Carson & Barnes for utilizing an elephant at Circus World who was so skinny that her hip bones have been protruding and for failing to note that one other elephant at Circus World was lame.

PETA—whose motto reads, partly, that “animals will not be ours to make use of for leisure”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For extra data, please go to PETA.org or observe the group on Twitter, Fb, or Instagram.