Animals serve as a source of amusement for people. Some of them become popular film celebrities, like Tai for example. The 45-year-old elephant Tai, who has played one of the lead characters – Rosie – in the recently released film Water for Elephants. While tai may have entertained millions, making them happy and cheer up, her own story of pain and cruel torture at the hands of her trainers.
In this recently released video, we see how Tai and other elephants held captive by circus were electro-shocked with stun guns and beaten with hooks by their trainers to get them do things for entertaining people. As humans, do we have the slightest reason to take pride in subjecting innocent, helpless animals to such treatment? I think not!
So why not stop going to these circuses and stop watching those films wherein amusing performances from animals make you happy, only because you are paying, because entertainment is business, but each smile given to you comes after a thousand pangs inflicted on the bodies and souls of these innocent beings? Please save life from pain. Act now and tell the entertainment industry that humanity comes first and respect for life is bigger than business.
In the wild, elephants live in herds, as a family...walking for miles, bathing happily together. It is heartbreaking to have these magnificent creatures taken away from their natural habitats and their families, subjected to such humiliation; and overpowering them through cruel means merely to entertain humans. In zoos, they are chained and fed with bananas by visitors. If Tai revolts, no human will stand a chance against her. But she has become a slave for humans... :(
ReplyDeleteVery right Caroline, in guise of friends, humans have betrayed the spirit of life. Sometimes it occurs to me that if humans stop abusing nature, they'll be a happy race.
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