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August 5, 2023
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Atlanta – This afternoon, Yaarab Shrine’s Potentate Robert Hampton and different participants were given a marvel throughout the last birthday party of the shrine’s annual circus season when PETA supporters disrupted the development by way of shouting, “Finish animal circus acts now! Forestall abusing animals!” and unveiled indicators that learn, “Elephants Crushed and Chained for Shrine Circuses.” Shriners surrounded the non violent protesters, grabbed them, and driven them—even supposing they had been continuing to depart as requested. Shriner thugs then blocked the protesters’ automobile, combating their departure till police arrived and allowed them to depart. Footage and video photos of the disruption are to be had right here.
The Yaarab Shrine Circus is without doubt one of the remaining closing circus presentations that also use wild animals who’re confined to small crates, stored in shackles, and disadvantaged of any semblance of a herbal existence. 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 instructor was once stuck on video attacking elephants with bullhooks—guns corresponding to a hearth poker with a pointy hook on one finish.
“PETA is made up our minds to peer the day when the Shriners agree that elephants are to be revered, no longer chained, crushed, or pressured to accomplish in circus presentations which are merciless and out of date,” says PETA Govt Vice President Tracy Reiman. “We’re upping the ante in urging Yaarab Shrine to forestall selling big-time cruelty below the massive best.”
On Monday, Yaarab Shrine will host a birthday celebration for participants with summer time birthdays—together with Hampton—and to mark the instance, PETA supporters in poop costumes will make a stink out of doors and ship a cake that reads, “Robert Hampton, Forestall Treating Animals Like Crap.” The back-to-back birthday celebration disruptions are an escalation of efforts to influence Shriners to chop the cruelty from all chapters’ circuses, following Moolah Shrine’s announcement that it dropped elephant acts.
PETA—whose motto reads, partly, that “animals aren’t ours to make use of for leisure”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more info, please talk over with PETA.org, concentrate to The PETA Podcast, or practice the gang on Twitter, Fb, or Instagram.
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