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Longview, Texas – They are saying the entirety is “larger in Texas”—so on Friday, PETA supporters will inflate a big, 15-foot-high fez that reads, “Shrine Circuses Abuse Animals,” outdoor the Sharon Shrine Circus in Longview and push the Shriners to modernize by means of holding tormented animals out in their displays, simply as Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus is doing. The bigger-than-life spectacle will likely be a part of a five-city marketing campaign during which animal defenders will rally at every of the circus’s stops throughout East Texas.
When: Friday, September 1, 3:30 p.m.
The place: In entrance of Longview Rodeo Area, 100 Grand Blvd., Longview
The Sharon Shrine Circus is one of the final final displays that also use wild animals, who’re confined to small crates, stored in shackles, and disadvantaged of any semblance of a herbal or satisfied existence. The Sharon Shriners mechanically spouse 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 violently attacking elephants with bullhooks—guns corresponding to a hearth poker with a pointy hook on one finish.
“In Shrine circuses, elephants, tigers, and different wild animals are tormented into acting hectic tips via concern of ache and punishment,” says PETA Govt Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA is asking on Sharon Shriners to finish those frightening animal acts, as a lot of different Shrines have already finished.”
Some well-intentioned other people might assume that attending a Shrine circus advantages youngsters. However price tag gross sales aren’t charitable donations: The earnings are normally used to handle the membership’s premises and fund its actions.
PETA—whose motto reads, partially, that “animals aren’t ours to make use of for leisure”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more info, please discuss with PETA.org, concentrate to The PETA Podcast, or observe the crowd on Twitter, Fb, or Instagram.