For example, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus was slapped with the largest penalty of its kind in U.S. history for abusing
elephants and lions after PETA urged the U.S. Department of Agriculture to take action against Ringling and presented indisputable evidence of the circus's animal abuse, including
beatings, the death of a lion, lame
elephants forced to perform despite chronic pain, and a
baby elephant who died during a training routine.
The game's missions are inspired by PETA's real - world exposés of animal abuse, including
baby elephants who were exploited by Ringling Bros. circus, mother cows whose calves are repeatedly torn away from them on dairy farms, and sheep who are
beaten on wool farms, as was documented at shearing facilities in Australia, the U.S., and Argentina.