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Officials for the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) have claimed that donkeys and mules on the Greek island of Santorini are still being overworked and abused as “tourist taxis,” charging that legislation recently passed to protect the animals is not being enforced.
On Wednesday, PETA Germany shared new video footage to YouTube of the equines trudging up and down the 500 steps from Santorini’s port to the city of Fira, carrying visitors in ill-fitting tack. The footage was reportedly filmed at the end of September, the Daily Mail reports, capping off what PETA described as another busy tourism season that unjustly battered the animals.
In the clip, which has since been viewed over 2,700 times, a narrator said that about 100 donkeys and mules are still suffering every day as they trek up and down the “slippery,” 500-step staircase carrying tourists, some over the 220-pound weight limit, multiple times a day. Outfitted in wire muzzles and tight-fitting saddles, the animals are reportedly beaten by handlers after stumbling or balking as they walk the path, despite the injuries and open wounds that plague their bodies.
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