PETA is looking for the assistance of grunge legends Alice in Chains to assist free an elephant named Betty from the long-running Carden Circus. The animal-rights group is asking the band to briefly change its identify to “Betty in Chains” for a month to assist put the highlight on the “world’s most depressed elephant.”
The 56-year-old Betty is “being compelled to carry out in roughly 300 circus reveals annually,” in keeping with PETA, including that the elephant is at risk of a deadly collapse if not launched to a sanctuary instantly. In a letter to Alice in Chains, the group wrote:
“Expensive Jerry, Sean, Mike, and William,
Coming to you with a splendidly unusual request from us at PETA. Would Alice in Chains be prepared to go by Betty in Chains throughout social media — for a month — to highlight an expensive elephant who actually spends her life in chains?
In a nutshell, we’re turning up the quantity on our efforts to rescue an aged, disabled elephant named Betty, who’s being compelled to carry out in roughly 300 circuses annually. Betty’s over 56 years previous, was taken as a child from Thailand, and has been utilized in circuses for greater than 5 many years. An elephant professional who lately examined Betty warns that she faces a deadly collapse if not instantly retired to a good sanctuary.
By lending (a model of) your iconic identify, you possibly can set the stage for freedom, amplify her story to tens of millions, and alter the course of historical past for all animals utilized in circuses.
Will you assist us present the world that Betty’s not combating this battle alone?
Let’s make some noise,
Individuals for the Moral Remedy of Animals (PETA)”
In a press launch, PETA Senior Vice President of Communications Lisa Lange added, “By the point grunge swept Seattle, Betty had already spent almost twenty years struggling as a circus prop, and each day that passes along with her being hauled from city to city and compelled to carry out brings her nearer to the brink of loss of life. PETA is encouraging Alice in Chains to get loud for Betty with a short lived identify change that reminds everybody to Keep Away from animal-abusing circuses.”
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PETA additional states that Betty “seems withdrawn and unresponsive, steadily standing nonetheless along with her eyes closed and her trunk on the bottom.”
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