Animal rights activists from PETA plan to deploy a giant “crying elephant” display outside the Southeastern Livestock Pavilion on Monday to protest the Loomis Bros. Circus and demand the retirement of a 56-year-old performing elephant.
The demonstration is scheduled to begin at 7:00 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 2, outside the livestock pavilion located at 2232 N. Jacksonville Road in Ocala.
According to a press release issued by PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), the protest is being staged to ask for the retirement of Okha, a 56-year-old elephant the organization says was “stolen from her home and family in India as a baby.”…