Tell Everyone That Ringling Beats Animals! September 29, 2009
Posted by Rachel-O at September 29, 2009 11:05 AM | Permalink | Comments ( 20 ) | TrackBackDo all of your friends and family, classmates, and even teachers know that Ringling Bros. beats animals with bullhooks? With PETA's recent investigation being e-mailed and forwarded all over the world, we're trying to let everyone know—but we need your help!
Last month, we made it easy for you to post the Ringling investigation on your MySpace page and share it on Facebook, and now we've put together a (super) easy form for you to use to send the video to everyone you know online!
Ringling Bros. steals baby elephants from their moms only to chain them up and force them to perform sad and ridiculous tricks under the big top—who would want to support Ringling if they knew? Tonka, Luna and the other elephants suffering at the hands of Ringling need everyone to know what happens behind the scenes—so use this form to send our undercover investigation to your friends now!
If you're on the peta2 Street Team, we'll give you 500 points for sending the video to all your friends—no need to send us a report, we'll credit your account in a few weeks! It doesn't get much easier than that!
Stay loud!
One Minute Mission: You vs. Ringling Bros. August 11, 2009
Posted by Rachel-O at August 11, 2009 3:46 PM | Permalink | Comments ( 22 ) | TrackBack
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We know how much you all love the minute missions, and who wouldn't? They only take a minute, they help animals, and they earn you points in the process!
That's why we've got a brand-new minute mission for you! All you need to do is share the just-released undercover video that shows Ringling Bros. workers beating and whipping elephants and tigers. It's a great way to spread the word that there is nothing entertaining about the cruel ways animals in the circus are treated. Many people are changed forever after watching an undercover investigation (I definitely was). Challenge your friends and family to watch the video—I'll bet that they'll never want to visit the circus after seeing the footage!
Here are some ways you can help:
1) Embed the video on your MySpace page with the code below:
If you haven't seen the video, please check it out below:
Visit RinglingBeatsAnimals.com
2) Download the video here and then upload it to your Facebook! Once it's downloaded, go to your status box, click the picture of the video camera, and follow the prompts. You can also upload it to your YouTube account!
Be sure to e-mail us at StreetTeam@peta2.com and let us know the reactions you got and please include a link to your page. You'll earn 500 points for each place that you shared the video!
For the animals,
Liz
It's Never Too Late To Help Elephants August 3, 2009
Posted by Pulin Modi at August 3, 2009 10:57 AM | Permalink | Comments ( 31 ) | TrackBack
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From a front page story in the New York Daily News to coverage on CNN and articles on the world's most popular blogs, including Perez Hilton, our new Ringling Bros. investigation has been capturing attention around the globe—awakening the world to the abuses behind the scenes in the "Saddest Show on Earth!"
This much needed attention and call to action against Ringling's routine beatings of elephants with bullhooks is a huge step towards ending the cruelty once and for all, but there is still more we can do. We must keep the pressure on the elephant-beating circus so that one day these elephants can roam free in a spacious sanctuary rather than continue to live a sad, painful, and fear-ridden life with shackles around their legs and bullhooks dug into their skin.
Please write to the USDA now and demand they seize Ringling's elephants. If you've already done this, please share this information with your friends and family.
Also, please remember that if you attend any circus that uses animals, you are supporting the suffering we documented inside Ringling. Please, don't attend animal circuses.
Thanks!
477 Years of Suffering July 30, 2009
Posted by Ryan at July 30, 2009 3:52 PM | Permalink | Comments ( 6 ) | TrackBack Hey everybody! Well, the mathemagicians over at PETA.org have crunched the numbers, to help us put the suffering animals face at the hands of the Ringling Bros. circus in perspective. Pretty astonishing stuff, eh?477 years ...
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To put this in perspective, 1968, the year that Baby, Sarah and Banana—three of the elephants who are traveling with Ringling—were forced to perform for the first time, was the year that Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot. We've come a long way since then—or have we?
Ringling talks a big game about "elephant conservation," but the reality is that Ringling has actually removed more elephants from the wild than it has bred. Most of the elephants you see pirouetting and standing on their heads in Ringling performances at one point in their lives roamed vast jungles. You might call it Ringling's other dirty secret (besides that little issue of beating the @#$% out of elephants when they think nobody's looking).
Ringling's elephants are also dying faster than they are breeding: At least 26 elephants, including four babies, have died since 1992. Eight were under the age of 40 (which is just about half an elephant's natural life expectancy of 70 years). Oh, and those babies Ringling does manage to breed are only used to replenish its dying stocks—they will never be released in the wild—ever.
Pretty depressing, isn't it? Ringling must be using some kind of new math to make all that add up to "conservation."
| Name | Year Acquired by Ringling | Year Born and Where | Length of Time with Ringling |
| Asia | 1990 | 1968 in the wild | 19 years |
| Tonka | 1989 | 8/23/1983 in captivity | 20 years |
| Luna | 1989 | 1984 in captivity | 20 years |
| Assan/Aussan | 1968 | 1957 in the wild | 41 years |
| Banana | 1968 | 1957 in the wild | 41 years |
| Sarah | 1968 | 1957 in the wild | 41 years |
| Toby | 1972 | 1961 in the wild | 37 years |
| Banko | 1980 | 1976 in the wild | 29 years |
| Siam | 1980 | 1978 in the wild | 29 years |
| Baby | 1968 | 1961 in the wild | 41 years |
| Angelica | 1997 | 1997 born into Ringling | 12 years |
BLUE UNIT
| Name | Year Acquired by Ringling | Year Born and Where | Length of Time with Ringling |
| Kelly Ann | 1996 | 1996 born into Ringling | 13 years |
| Sara | 2001 | 2001 born into Ringling | 8 years |
| Bonnie | 1994 | 1994 born into Ringling | 15 years |
| Juliette | 1992 | 1992 born into Ringling | 17 years |
| Minyak | 1984 | 1966 in the wild | 25 years |
| Karen | 1969 | 1969 in the wild | 40 years |
| Nicole | 1980 | 1976 in the wild | 29 years |
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New PETA Investigation Shows Ringling Beats Animals July 22, 2009
Posted by Ryan at July 22, 2009 10:20 AM | Permalink | Comments ( 4 ) | TrackBackHey everybody. Undercover investigations have long been at the foundation of PETA's efforts to speak out against cruelty to animals, and this latest example is no exception. Make sure to check out the footage below, and I'll let our Senior Research Associate, Dan Paden, explain the details ...
—Ryan
Today we released a new investigation inside Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus that shows workers on video as they beat and whipped elephants dozens of times in venues across the country. It's an investigation that I helped work on.
Once investigators capture video from an investigation, my job is to review all the footage and meticulously record the abuses and other notable findings. From that, I prepare condensed versions of the video for the public to view and draft complaints to officials, which in the new investigation into Ringling amounted to nine complaints to a total of 20 federal and state offices.
At times, reviewing so much footage can be tedious and extremely upsetting, but it's nothing compared to the relentless suffering that the animals who are used by Ringling are subjected to.
Most of the investigations that I work on involve farmed animals, in which the longest life span is about two years (for a pig used for breeding purposes). Her two years going from gestation crate to farrowing crate and back, over and over, are miserable, but her suffering comes to an end. For the elephants used and abused by Ringling, the suffering can go on for decades, and there's no end in sight—unless PETA and the public can convince the USDA to seize these majestic, elderly psychologically damaged animals.
Many of these elephants have not known anything close to a "natural" life since they were caught in Asia decades before I was born, but now the USDA has the chance to make things right by moving these animals to a sanctuary where they will be able to roam around the vast area that they need in order to be healthy and happy. Our brave investigator has armed the USDA with the information that it needs in order to make this happen and finally end these animals' decades of suffering.
It is an honor to work on all our investigations, which are the heart and soul of PETA, but it has been the highest compliment ever to be able to work with our investigator to document the heartbreaking plight of the gentle giants who are abused by Ringling and give them a chance to escape from their long years of torment and beatings.
Now that we have given the feds more than sufficient evidence to seize these animals, I hope we will finally be able to make history for elephants.
- Dan Paden, Senior Research Associate
Use Your Camera to Help Elephants! June 17, 2009
Posted by Rachel-O at June 17, 2009 1:44 PM | Permalink | Comments ( 0 ) | TrackBackWhat's cuter than elephants who aren't in chains, living out miserable lives for Ringling Bros. or other circuses? People speaking out against circuses, of course!
If you're wondering why peta2 and animal lovers everywhere hate circuses so much, see for yourself by watching one of PETA's many undercover investigations into Ringling Bros. and other circuses here.
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Street Teamers will get 500 points for sending their pics in, so get to it!
A Ringling Bros. Wii Game? WTF? May 11, 2009
Posted by Rachel-O at May 11, 2009 2:06 PM | Permalink | Comments ( 9 ) | TrackBack  |
Ringling will try just about anything to get people's money in exchange for abusing animals under their trashy big top. In reality though, it takes very little to find out about Ringling's dirty laundry list of animal deaths and citations. But you don't have to take our word for it—you can also check out all of our undercover investigation footage where we've filmed Ringling employees beating elephants.
It's no shock that Ringling's attendance is going down. What's Ringling's next dirty trick?
Well, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus is looking to take its cruelty to animals virtual—it is teaming up with Take-Two Interactive Software to create a circus-themed Wii game. Hmm ... I don't suppose this game comes with a virtual bullhook—does it?
We've told Take-Two about Ringling Bros.' real-life, lengthy history of animal abuse and neglect and shown it undercover video footage of a standard industry training session, in which animal handlers used electric prods and bullhooks to gouge elephants in the most sensitive parts of their bodies. Even after seeing this for themselves—Take-Two is still moving forward with it's plan to create a Ringling Bros. game.
Send a message to Take-Two CEO Ben Feder urging him to sever ties with Ringling Bros. Let him know that you'd rather play a game featuring a circus that doesn't beat animals for "entertainment."
Former Ringling Bros. Circus Employee Speaks Out December 21, 2007
Posted by Pulin Modi at December 21, 2007 5:13 PM | Permalink | Comments ( 4 ) | TrackBack
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Archele Hundley, a former Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus employee, has recently teamed up with us to make a moving plea to potential circusgoers.
Check it out here and make sure you show your parents and teachers, too.
Watch more videos at peta2.com.
Among the horrors Archele witnessed were:
- An elephant was beaten with bullhooks so severely in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 2006 that she bled profusely and cried out in pain.
- A trainer viciously whipped a camel and punched a miniature horse in the face.
- Trainers jabbed horses with pitchforks and gave them extremely painful "lip twists" to force the animals to obey commands.
Please get involved with the peta2 Street Team and the circus campaign.
Spread the word!
It's DeFlocked Time Again! August 23, 2007
Posted by Marta at August 23, 2007 9:52 AM | Permalink | Comments ( 0 ) | TrackBack
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So you don't have to read me rambling on, I'll leave you with Jeff Corriveau's DeFlocked to enjoy. Though I can't stop typing without first telling you to check out Circuses.com.
Click for a larger version
To check out past installments, click here.
♥ Marta
Tell Denny's What You Think of Its Ringling Promos August 14, 2007
Posted by Pulin Modi at August 14, 2007 9:50 PM | Permalink | Comments ( 0 ) | TrackBackYou know that restaurant chain Denny's, right? Well, clearly they're not hardcore animal rights activists, but you would think the company would have the decency to at least not support one of the most obviously exploitive companies on the face of the earth.
Turns out that Denny's recently announced a partnership with notorious animal abusers Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus to promote Ringling at its restaurants in each of the towns where the circus performs. Why would Denny's want to partner with a company which uses dangerous bullhooks, forces injured animals to perform, and has paid tens of thousands of dollars in fines for failing to meet minimal Animal Welfare Act standards?! I have no freaking idea! Why don't you ask them?
Here's a video from a little while back that is pretty informative.
Please contact Denny's CEO Nelson Marchioli and let him know what you think about Denny's new partnership with Ringling. Remind him that after learning of the abuse inherent in animal circuses, major corporations like General Mills, Burger King, Liz Claiborne, MasterCard, Visa, and Sears, Roebuck and Co. ended their sponsorships of circuses like Ringling and UniverSoul.
Those of you on the Street Team will get 250 points for doing this. Just be patient and give us a couple weeks to actually credit them, though, ok?
Thank you so much!
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