PEORIA -- Peoria Area Voices for Animals sends this:
Protest of Ringling Bros. "Cruelest Show on Earth" - Friday September 23rd, 5:45-6:45 pm, Peoria Civic Center
Join us as we urge the public to boycott Ringling Bros. and all circuses that exploit, enslave, and abuse animals.
Signs, leaflets, and tiger masks will be provided. Anyone wanting to get creative with costumes (elephants, tigers, sad clowns, etc..) feel free!
In addition, if anyone is interested in working with our local humane society to urge them to take a public position against circuses that abuse animals, please contact us and/or Catherine Doyle from In Defense of Animals.
Animals abused and exploited by circuses are constantly carted from city to city and kept in tiny enclosures or chained by their legs for most of their lives.
They endure deprivation of all that is natural to them and also endure brutal beatings to force them to perform idiotic tricks that can be physically dangerous to the animals.
Circus animals perform out of fear and have been beaten into submission during their "training" sessions. They know that the beatings will resume whenever they fail to perform as expected.
There is no positive reinforcement in the circus. Two-ton animals do not stand on pedestals in nature and they don't stand on pedestals to earn a food reward. The only way to control massive elephants is through brute force, pain, and fear.
For more information about the routine abuse and cruelty inherent in circuses that exploit animals, visit www.Circuses.com.
To see appalling undercover footage of elephant "training", visit http://www.peta.org/tv/videos/investigations-animals-in-entertainment/110871250001.aspx
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