If anyone wishes to enter a weight-lifting contest, they should train and have a go at it, but leave the camels out of it. They already endure at the hands of people who treat them with ignorance and arrogance.
CHRIS PLEASANCE: ‘‘Animal rights activists have blasted a ‘barbaric’ camel weight-lifting contest which sees animals loaded up with packs of rocks then forced to stand… On the day of the event, bags of stones are weighed in front of competitors before being placed on the humps and the backs of competing camels… The camels then stand up and are made to walk around briefly once the process which takes 15 minutes is completed and the bags are secured… A four-year-old camel Sheezada Kathreela lifted bags of rocks weighing a staggering 1.7tons, the equivalent of a small car
The contest was slammed by animal rights group PETA which has described the sport as ‘abuse’. PETA director Elisa Allen said: ‘If anyone wishes to enter a weight-lifting contest, they should train and have a go at it, but leave the animals out of it. ‘Camels are intelligent, sensitive individuals, and treating them as living cranes for human amusement adds to the many types of abuse, including their eventual slaughter.
‘They already endure at the hands of people who treat them with ignorance and arrogance. ‘Young camels used in novelty displays or contests such as this one are removed from their nurturing, loving mothers when they’re just days old. They are then bullied and intimidated into doing things that are baffling, meaningless, and deeply stressful to them, such as hauling extremely heavy weights which can cause physical injury’. SOURCE…
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