Uploaded August 2017 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Elephants in nature don't carry people on their backs. Continuing to offer these abusive rides drives demand for an egregiously cruel industry that uses violence and domination to force elephants into subservience.
Elephants who are used for rides are trained as babies in a process commonly called the 'Phajaan', or "the crush." During this process, still-nursing baby elephants are torn away from their mothers, kicking and screaming. They're lassoed and bound with ropes, immobilized in wooden boxes, beaten mercilessly, and gouged with bull-hooks, nail-studded sticks, or other weapons—sometimes for days on end. These ritualized "training" sessions leave the elephants badly injured and traumatized, and it's been reported that up to half of the baby elephants subjected to this abuse don't survive the process. Those who do are forced to spend their lives in servitude, under the constant threat of punishment. They are routinely beaten and are often worked to exhaustion, sometimes even to the point of death. "Fun" is a pathetic excuse for riding on the back of a living, feeling being whose spirit has been broken.
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Elephants in nature don't carry people on their backs. Continuing to offer these abusive rides drives demand for an egregiously cruel industry that uses violence and domination to force elephants into subservience.
Elephants who are used for rides are trained as babies in a process commonly called the 'Phajaan', or "the crush." During this process, still-nursing baby elephants are torn away from their mothers, kicking and screaming. They're lassoed and bound with ropes, immobilized in wooden boxes, beaten mercilessly, and gouged with bull-hooks, nail-studded sticks, or other weapons—sometimes for days on end. These ritualized "training" sessions leave the elephants badly injured and traumatized, and it's been reported that up to half of the baby elephants subjected to this abuse don't survive the process. Those who do are forced to spend their lives in servitude, under the constant threat of punishment. They are routinely beaten and are often worked to exhaustion, sometimes even to the point of death. "Fun" is a pathetic excuse for riding on the back of a living, feeling being whose spirit has been broken.
Please help to raise awareness by sharing this video.
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