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September 23, 2011

Tonight -- for the elephants...

PEORIA -- from a news release:

Protest of Ringling Bros. "Cruelest Show on Earth" - Friday September 23rd, 5:45-6:45 pm, Peoria Civic Center

Please join us this Friday as we urge the public to boycott Ringling Bros. and all circuses that exploit, enslave, and abuse animals.  If you plan to attend the protest, if would be helpful, if you are a Facebook user, if you could mark that you will be attending on the following Facebook event page: 

https://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=280564301970657


 Signs, leaflets, and tiger masks will be provided.  Anyone wanting to get creative with costumes (elephants, tigers, sad clowns, etc.) feel free!  In addition, in order to try to keep circuses that abuse animals out of town in the future, one of our members plans to work with our local humane society to urge them to take a public position against circuses that abuse animals.  If you'd like to help with that endeavor, please contact me.
 
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.  2 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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I'm not too crazy about zoos either, but circus's are worse by far.

Posted by: Steve Waterworth | September 23, 2011 at 10:11 PM

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