{"id":750528,"date":"2017-12-26T12:44:30","date_gmt":"2017-12-26T12:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=750528"},"modified":"2017-12-26T12:47:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-26T12:47:00","slug":"peta-founder-is-beaten-while-protesting-elephant-rides-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=750528","title":{"rendered":"PETA Founder is \u2018Beaten\u2019 While Protesting Elephant Rides in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>PETA:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;Sometimes the most effective way to raise awareness and spark compassion is to present a visual image so jarring that it literally turns heads. That\u2019s exactly what PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk did on December 14 by dressing like an elephant and being \u201cbeaten\u201d by a handler at a popular Jaipur tourist spot to promote banning elephant rides in India. Chained for effect, Ingrid and her mahout (elephant trainer) demonstrated to members of the media, Jaipur residents, and Amber Fort visitors how elephants who are forced to give tourist rides are enslaved, beaten until their spirits break, and denied all freedom&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The nightmare of captivity is constant for elephants who are forced to haul tourists, even when they\u2019re injured, lame, or blind, as many are. They endure barbaric training to \u201cbreak\u201d them as youngsters and then routine beatings and psychological torment. Trainers even pierce elephants\u2019 sensitive ears and drill holes into their tusks, which contain live bone. Instead of spending their days socializing and foraging for food as they do in nature, captive elephants are chained when they\u2019re not working\u2014sometimes with spiked hobbles\u2014and forced to stand on hard concrete floors, which causes painful and sometimes fatal foot problems&#8217;.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peta.org\/blog\/peta-founder-beaten-protesting-elephant-rides-india\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r9RkPr3AHyQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PETA: &#8216;Sometimes the most effective way to raise awareness and spark compassion is to present a visual image so jarring that it literally turns heads. That\u2019s exactly what PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk did on December 14 by dressing like an elephant and being \u201cbeaten\u201d by a handler at a popular Jaipur tourist spot to promote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":750531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,20],"tags":[28,35],"class_list":["post-750528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-justice","tag-entertainment","tag-protection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=750528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":750530,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750528\/revisions\/750530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/750531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=750528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=750528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=750528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}