For immediate release:
February 17, 2022
Contact:
David Perle 202-483-7382
Dade City, Fla. – When the Bay Area Renaissance Festival opens this Saturday, there will be an “elephant” and a herd of PETA and the Animal Rights Foundation of Florida members were waiting at the gate. They will all be there to blow a warning to fair-goers that the use of bullhooks — weapons resembling a fireplace poker with a sharp iron hook at one end — to intimidate real elephants. belonging to a distant era, although they are still used at festivals and to warn that interacting with elephants is at risk injury and disease transmission.
When: Saturday, February 19, 1:15 p.m
Where: 12838 Auton Rd., Dade City
PETA executive vice president Tracy Reiman said: “Elephants are intelligent and sensitive individuals who are separated from their families for the occasional amusement of fair-goers. “PETA is calling on the lords, ladies, and gents of the Bay Area Renaissance to stop middleman behaviorevil elephant riding scene. ”
PETA — in part, the motto that “animals are not ours to use for fun” — advocates speciesism, a human worldview – supremacy.
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