WHAT’S WRONG WITH THE CIRCUS
See for yourself here.
From Free the Animals site:
Dayton, OH (2002) – Amy Hafner, Columbus mother of two, stormed the center ring of Ringling Bros. Barnum and Bailey Circus at Dayton’s Ervin J. Nutter Center Wednesday night to protest Ringling’s long history of animal torture.
Hafner, 25, stunned an unexpecting audience of thousands when she jumped in the center ring in front of a spotlighted cart of animals. She carried a banner that read, “Ringling Bros.
tortures animals” while yelling, “Animals are beaten and whipped into submission for your entertainment.” Security eventually caught Hafner and dragged her out of the arena in front of the shocked audience. Activists target the circus because of the long history of unnecessary abuse to animals. Although the Ringling Bros. PR department has been working hard to deceive the public that the animals imprisoned in the circus are “treated like family,” no amount of false propaganda can sanitize the circus’s record of animal care.
Ringling Bros. Circus has failed to meet minimal federal standards for the care of animals used in exhibition as established in the Animal Welfare Act. Ringling paid $20,000 to settle U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) charges of failing to provide veterinary care to a dying baby elephant. The USDA also cited Ringling for failure to possess records of veterinary care, failure to provide animals with sufficient space, failure to provide animals with exercise, and endangering tigers who were nearly baked alive in a boxcar because of poor maintenance of their enclosures. In less than two years, two baby elephants died, a caged tiger was shot to death, a horse who was used despite a chronic medical condition died during Ringling’s traditional animal march, and a wild-caught sea lion was found dead in her transport container.
WHAT’S WRONG WITH THE ZOO
Pitiful Facts About Zoos
Man-Made Zoochosis
WILD ORCAS ROAM 100 MILES A DAY
They live long as us, perhaps longer. So it’s no surprise that inside a concrete tank in an oceanarium such as Sea World, orcas survive only about ten years. For us this would be the equivalent of dying in our childhood.
WATCH THE WHALE DOCUMENTARY LOLITA: SLAVE TO ENTERTAINMENT
Needless to say, any time humans use another species for “sport” or “entertainment,” the doomed consequence is grave physical and emotional damage. This includes using animals in bullfights, cockfights, dogfights, horse racing, greyhound racing, rodeos, and canned hunts of large animals such as lions and tigers. For each animal, it means a grisly premature death—
often after the agony of enduring multiple chronic injuries.
