PETA Statement: Petty Reforms Won’t Help Horses and Camels Starved and Beaten at the Giza Pyramids

PETA Statement: Petty Reforms Won’t Help Horses and Camels Starved and Beaten at the Giza Pyramids

After the latest PETA video expose revealed animals forced to give rides near the pyramids are dying in record numbers, with many severely emaciated and suffering from untreated wounds, Orascom Pyramids and the Brooke Hospital for Animals Egypt have announced a supposed “welfare program”—the fourth such program launched in less than four years. Below, please find a statement from PETA Senior Vice President Jason Baker:

Enough with the empty promises. The pile of dead horses dumped just behind the pyramids, as revealed in PETA’s most recent footage, should be enough to send the message that these petty reforms don’t work. It is time to end the dirty business of using animals like cars and then sending them to the junkyard when they break down due to unrelenting abuse and neglect. PETA urges Egyptian authorities to ban animal rides at the pyramids, as it’s the only way to ensure horses and camels don’t suffer.

Over the past six years, PETA has documented that starving horses and camels are punched, kicked, and whipped, and that they are forced to carry people in blistering heat without shade or adequate water, then left for dead or sent to slaughter when they are too old, sick, or injured to be profitable.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to use for entertainment or abuse in any other way”—points out that Every Animal Is Someone. For more information, please visit PETAAsia.com or follow PETA on X, Facebook, or Instagram.