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Video: Alec Baldwin Joins PETA To Stop Circus Elephant Abuse
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Jen Carlson
Published Mar 16, 2012
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If Alec Baldwin fell out of favor with you after his in-flight tantrum, then he might just win you back with this. The actor has teamed up with PETA in a new campaign against the Ringling Bros. Circus. In the below four-minute video, he narrates the life of a circus elephant from birth, to being "broken," to getting bullhooked by trainers. The video shows footage of the elephants being tortured by circus employees—footage that is even more disturbing than PETA's original video documenting the abuse, which we published in 2009.
The circus's controversial Elephant Walk usually takes place in March, but this year (this weekend, in fact) they're over in New Jersey instead of New York City.
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Jen Carlson is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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