Elephant Polo Organizers Vow Changes As Sponsors Pull Out

By Lobsang Dundup Sherpa Subirana, Deputy Editor

 

  

A polo player sitting behind a mahout chooses a polo mallet during the King's Cup Elephant Polo tournament Match 8 in Bangkok. Photo: Sakchai Lalit / Associated Press

 

BANGKOK — The organizers of an annual elephant polo tournament said Thursday they would train handlers to prevent future instances of abuse as more sponsors reportedly pulled their support.

 

A spokeswoman for the venue of the King’s Cup Elephant Polo tournament said mahouts would be trained to reduce use of the bullhooks used to beat the animals in a video released by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA.

 

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Better yet, cancel the event and put these beautiful, intelligent, emotional animals in a reserve with THEIR families. 

 

And give the mahouts the Teachings of The Lord Bhudda, particularly the paragraph where it says to respect all living things. Crazy suggestion, I know. 

Financial damage limitation. They don't give a damn about the welfare of these beasts of burden.

1 hour ago, webfact said:

A spokeswoman for the venue of the King’s Cup Elephant Polo tournament said mahouts would be trained to reduce use of the bullhooks used to beat the animals

Reduce.....?

It is really very simple: Wild animals should not be used for our entertainment....!!

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a Brazilian expert would be flown in to help the effort

 

What's he gonna do? Need someone to save the elephants, not shave the elephants.

 

 

 

Edited March 29, 20188 yr by Darcula

34 minutes ago, Darcula said:

 

What's he gonna do? Need someone to save the elephants, not shave the elephants.

 

 

 

Well, they don't have a problem with cruelty or exploiting elephants in Brazil.

 

They don't have any elephants.

 

They do have an awful lot of coffee in Brazil...

2 hours ago, webfact said:

they would train handlers to prevent future instances of abuse

The abuse begins at birth.

What they really mean is "Prevent abuse being witnessed"

I think the name of the event is why it can't be stopped....

The money goes due to bad PR and then comes desire to reform after the fact.  Again the wealth of Thailand shows just how savage and ungracious they truly are.

 

make it the elephants' turn:

 to hold the spike,  and the polo wacking racket 

 

 

man now just hold on for dear life!

 - and try to duck and avoid the flailing (payback) swings

 

 

at the very least, with Dumbo in control, it can do what it really wants to...

4 hours ago, JAG said:

Well, they don't have a problem with cruelty or exploiting elephants in Brazil.

 

They don't have any elephants.

 

They do have an awful lot of coffee in Brazil...

 

Black Ivory Coffee

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Ivory_Coffee

 

31 minutes ago, Morch said:

 

Black Ivory Coffee

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Ivory_Coffee

 

Thank you for that.

I am rather fond of Heffalumps, and applaud all and any action to enable these magnificent animals to live a life as The Almighty/nature  intended. However on balance I don't think I will go for the coffee produced from beans that have passed through them, as it were.

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“By withdrawing their sponsorship, these companies have proudly set a positive example for those that still support such abusive spectacles to follow,”  Ashley Fruno, a PETA campaigner

Johnnie Walker

PricewaterhouseCoopers

Sunraysia

Campari Group

Grohe

Ecolab

JDE

Angus Energy

Hafele

Vespa

 

Thank you!

Every captive elephant is beaten all over Thailand but somehow no one really cared until some rich folks put on a show and now the focus is nailing only this event to the wall. Why can't people show some sympathy for the captive elephant population that are brutalized by poor people all over Thailand instead of focusing their hatred on the rich? Why not boycott taking elephant rides and feeding begging elephants? You will be sorry to see how these majestic creatures are treated and what they had to go through. It's sad to see no one really cares about the wildlife. It's just another double standard for the rich and the poor can abuse the animals as much as they want.

 

So which companies didn't pull out after this debacle??

13 hours ago, tukkytuktuk said:

Johnnie Walker

PricewaterhouseCoopers

Sunraysia

Campari Group

Grohe

Ecolab

JDE

Angus Energy

Hafele

Vespa

 

Thank you!

I am  boycotting all those companies. Corporate bullies And hypocrites. PricewaterhouseCoopers! Scum. World rapers. Vespa slave labour produced planet polluters and so on.. 

14 minutes ago, The manic said:

I am  boycotting all those companies. Corporate bullies And hypocrites. PricewaterhouseCoopers! Scum. World rapers. Vespa slave labour produced planet polluters and so on.. 

They are the companies who have withdrawn sponsorship.

Please delete.

Edited March 30, 20188 yr by Fish Head Soup
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8 minutes ago, Fish Head Soup said:

They are the companies who have withdrawn sponsorship.

Yes. I hate that kind of corporate PC bullying and the PC thinking behind it. They should continue to sponsor but help in overseeing animal welfare. Running scared of the animal rights nutters is, the real lack of ethics... The easy way out that scapegoats the poor, the dark skinned and those without false western animal sentimentality. Sickening. 

I am  boycotting all those companies. Corporate bullies And hypocrites. PricewaterhouseCoopers! Scum. World rapers. Vespa slave labour produced planet polluters and so on.. 

 

Vespa produced what planet pollutants?

 

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5 hours ago, Argus Tuft said:

So which companies didn't pull out after this debacle??

 

Anything to do with sponsor's names has been erased from the website. However this peta page lists:

 

Banfi, Benihana of Tokyo, Diversey, IBM, INVNT, and Ripley's Believe It or Not!

 

https://support.petalatino.com/page/4759/action/1?locale=en-US

Is anyone going to boycott friends who have taken an elephant ride or chastise people seen feeding a begging elephant? Elephant cruelty should stop everywhere, not just a single annual event. Isn't it peculiar how people are only angry at an event that was designed to promote elephants who was blindsided by a mahout doing something he agreed and signed a contract he would not do? How much condemnation has gone to the guy who abused the elephant? None??? Wow now isn't that amazing. Now if the man dishing out the abuse was rich like say Premchai you would be ripping him a new one and demanding animal cruelty charges wouldn't you? But since it was just some poor guy the standard changes and you let it go and don't care about him. The organizers of this event care about elephants more than most people, certainly more than the hypocrites responding to this thread. Who would bet against them assuring mahouts never break their rules again, even if that means closing the event? It's only too clear the reaction to this incident is one of hatred and jealousy, not concern for elephants. The innocent captive elephants all over Thailand are subject to abuse everyday and need your support and you turn your back on these precious creatures and care nothing about it.

 

Edited March 31, 20188 yr by canopy