An elephant being forcibly coerced to walk. Although she had not presented a fake ID on entering, she had showed her old student ID card of Ohio University, which went unchecked, she said. Arrested for the demonstration, she spent a night in a police cell.
Life is a prison for animals, every day.
Of course they wouldn't admit the animals are beaten and abused. She claimed PeTA has video footage taken at the Ringling Bros. circus, showing ill-treatment of animals behind the scenes such as tigers forced into tiny cages with barely enough room to turn around. Jayaram, whose parents hail from Karnataka, said she has been an animal rights activist for the last 10 years. She said she has always loved animals. Cows and cats, she commented, have the same feelings and she wondered why cows should be eaten and not cats.