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August 16, 2023
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Carthage, Texas – Forward of the Sharon Shrine Circus’ efficiency in Carthage later this month, PETA fired off a letter this morning to Potentate John Threadgill urging him to go away elephants and different exploited animals out of the display and depend on human showmanship, simply as Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus is now doing.
“Animals have each bit as a lot proper to an actual existence as any Shriner, however they’re pressured to accomplish annoying methods in entrance of noisy crowds in Shrine circus displays,” says PETA Govt Vice President Tracy Reiman. “That is 2023, no longer 1923, and PETA is looking on Sharon Shriners to fall in step with a lot of different Shrines by means of showcasing human performers and ditching the animal acts.”
The Sharon Shrine Circus is likely one of the final last displays that also use wild animals, who’re confined to small crates, saved in shackles, and disadvantaged of any semblance of a herbal or satisfied existence. The Sharon Shriners robotically 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 teacher used to be stuck on video violently attacking elephants.
PETA’s marketing campaign to finish the Sharon Shrine’s animal exploitation has incorporated a protest outdoor Threadgill’s house in Flint and a disruption outdoor the Shrine in Tyler that featured animal allies posing as circus performers in fez hats and “beating” large inflatable crying elephants. So far, greater than 69,000 PETA supporters have contacted the Sharon Shriners urging them to forestall the use of animals of their circuses.
The crowd’s request for animal-free displays additionally applies to Sharon Shrine Circus’ upcoming dates in Lufkin, Nacogdoches, Longview, and Tyler. To pressure house the message, PETA could also be hitting airwaves in the ones towns with a video spot that displays tigers in steel cages and elephants being jabbed with bullhooks—guns comparable to a hearth poker with a pointy hook on one finish—at Shrine circuses.
PETA—whose motto reads, partly, that “animals don’t seem to be ours to make use of for leisure”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more info, please discuss with PETA.org, pay attention to The PETA Podcast, or observe the crowd on Twitter, Fb, or Instagram.