Tell Audemars Piguet to Stop Supporting Elephant Cruelty
Venerable Swiss watchmaker Audemars Piguet is sponsoring Thailand's 2009 King's Cup Elephant Polo Tournament, an event in which riders gouge bullhooks into elephants' sensitive skin to make them perform. The event also subjects many elephants to injuries when their massive and fragile bodies cannot handle the game's swift and sudden movements.
Elephant polo makes life for Thailand's captive elephants even more miserable. Most captive elephants are used as tourist attractions in elephant camps, where they are forced to perform circus tricks and give rides. PETA U.S. has uncovered the
horrific torture that is routine in Thailand's secret "training" camps. Still-nursing baby elephants are dragged from their mothers, kicking and screaming. They are immobilized, beaten mercilessly, and gouged with nails for days at a time. These ritualized "training" sessions leave the elephants badly injured, traumatized, or even dead.
Please use the form below to send an e-mail to Audemars Piguet executives and ask them to end their support of this cruel, barbaric, and disgraceful practice, which should have been abandoned long ago.
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