Tell Audemars Piguet to Stop Supporting Elephant Polo

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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<http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/Prefs.asp?video=thai_elephants>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.

 

*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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