As an animal lover, it’s hard to know where to draw the line when it comes to animals in entertainment. Circuses have almost always been criticized for their treatment of animals & after doing research for this post, I’ll not visit another one.
Not A Good Message
Many of the animals used in this type of entertainment are facing extinction in the wild. What kind of message are we delivering to our youth if we continue to cage wild animals and force them to perform tricks for our amusement?
If you love the idea of the circus, there are always animal-free options, where performers actually get to choose their work. Teach your children to respect animals, and enlist their support for boycotting circuses that have animal acts – do it for the animals.
If all of that doesn’t convince you, perhaps these 12 reasons will…
Really, Do You Need Any More Reasons?
For more information about the abuse circus animals suffer at the hands of their captors, please visit Circuses.com.
Animals are not for entertainment. They are for education, studying, and admiring, yes. For meat, milk, eggs, and as beasts of burden, of course. And certainly for enjoyment and company.
But irrespective of their ‘purpose’ all animals deserve a decent animal’s life. With sufficient space, environmental variation, and diverse social interaction.
They are not getting that in circuses.
“But the circus – with animals – is an important part of our culture.”
Certainly. But so is witch burning, and quartering protestants, etc. It all happened. And we should remember that. But it doesn’t happen anymore. Because we have changed since then. We’ve learned. We’ve evolved.
Well, some of us have, anyway.
Animals are not for entertainment or sport, for fashion, for food or for science and research. The animals of the world exist for their own reasons; and those who are bred to supply such practices only want to live the life they were given free of harm and worry. Live and Let Live
This list of reasons to boycott circuses is missing something:
13. Humans who are paid to perform idiotic unnatural inhumane stunts against their will