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Atlanta – On Sunday, large inflatable crying elephants might be chained and crushed by “circus performers” in fez hats outdoors the Yaarab Shrine as a part of PETA’s marketing campaign urging Shriners to modernize their circuses by making them animal-free, simply because the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus is doing.
When: Sunday, December 4, 12 midday
The place: Yaarab Shrine Heart, 400 Ponce De Leon Ave. N.E., Atlanta
The Yaarab Shrine Circus is among the many final remaining reveals that also use wild animals who’re confined to small crates, stored in shackles, and disadvantaged of any semblance of a pure life. It has partnered with notoriously merciless exhibitors, together with Carson & Barnes Circus, which has been cited for greater than 100 violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act and whose head coach was caught on video attacking elephants with bullhooks—weapons resembling a hearth poker with a pointy hook on one finish.
“Cruelty takes middle stage at any circus the place delicate animals are tormented into performing demeaning methods in entrance of noisy crowds,” says PETA Govt Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA is asking on Yaarab Shriners to cease internet hosting horrifying animal acts, as quite a few different shrines have already completed.”
PETA—whose motto reads, partially, that “animals are usually not ours to make use of for leisure”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview.
For extra info, please go to PETA.org or observe the group on Twitter, Fb, or Instagram.