EXOTIC ANIMAL BAN
We love circuses, but hate the mistreatment of animals that is inherent when teaching them unnatural circus tricks.
That's why The Girls Gone Green has partnered with Jax Protest to let animal abusers know they are not welcome in our town. On Tuesday, December 13, we gathered a group of concerned citizens to address the City Council and ask them to ban wild and exotic animals in traveling shows like Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. We have another meeting slated for January 10, 2011 and we still need a lot more signatures asking the City of Jacksonville to say no to cruelty and protect public health.
PLEASE SIGN AND SHARE THE PETITION HERE!
In November, the U.S. Department of Agriculture slapped the parent company of the "Greatest Show on Earth" with a record penalty for alleged animal rights violations. Feld Entertainment Inc., which produces the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, has agreed to pay $270,000 for allegedly violating the Animal Welfare Act on several occasions from June 2007 to August 2011, according to a USDA news release. This is the LARGEST fine ever against a circus in our nation's history!
Also, earlier this year, Ringling Bros. was cited after an elephant named Sarah collapsed following a show in California. Official USDA documentation alleges that despite diagnosis by a senior veterinarian for Sarah's infection, animal handlers ignored the recommended treatment and insisted that her problems stemmed from a chronic (yet undocumented) fistula that was under control. You can view the video of Sarah’s collapse here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/10/elephant-abuse-adi-protest_n_923882.html.
Learn more about animals in circuses by clicking here.
A growing number of cities— including the Florida cities of Hollywood, Lauderdale Lakes and Pompano Beach— have restricted or banned circuses and other exotic animal acts. Please speak out and help Jacksonville join these compassionate communities by creating an ordinance to ban animal acts.
Locate your City Council Member by clicking here.
That's why The Girls Gone Green has partnered with Jax Protest to let animal abusers know they are not welcome in our town. On Tuesday, December 13, we gathered a group of concerned citizens to address the City Council and ask them to ban wild and exotic animals in traveling shows like Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. We have another meeting slated for January 10, 2011 and we still need a lot more signatures asking the City of Jacksonville to say no to cruelty and protect public health.
PLEASE SIGN AND SHARE THE PETITION HERE!
In November, the U.S. Department of Agriculture slapped the parent company of the "Greatest Show on Earth" with a record penalty for alleged animal rights violations. Feld Entertainment Inc., which produces the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, has agreed to pay $270,000 for allegedly violating the Animal Welfare Act on several occasions from June 2007 to August 2011, according to a USDA news release. This is the LARGEST fine ever against a circus in our nation's history!
Also, earlier this year, Ringling Bros. was cited after an elephant named Sarah collapsed following a show in California. Official USDA documentation alleges that despite diagnosis by a senior veterinarian for Sarah's infection, animal handlers ignored the recommended treatment and insisted that her problems stemmed from a chronic (yet undocumented) fistula that was under control. You can view the video of Sarah’s collapse here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/10/elephant-abuse-adi-protest_n_923882.html.
Learn more about animals in circuses by clicking here.
A growing number of cities— including the Florida cities of Hollywood, Lauderdale Lakes and Pompano Beach— have restricted or banned circuses and other exotic animal acts. Please speak out and help Jacksonville join these compassionate communities by creating an ordinance to ban animal acts.
Locate your City Council Member by clicking here.
The Circus Elephants
Elephants are not born into circuses.
Baby elephants are violently and traumatically taken from their homelands and families in sub-Saharan Africa and Asian countries like Sumatra, Burma and India. They are taken by humans who sell them into circus slavery.
Animal circuses like Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey have been repeatedly charged by the USDA, ASPCA and others with numerous violations including physically abusing elephants, failing to provide them with adequate food and water, neglect and failure to provide medical care.
The "training" of circus elephants is a vicious process where the tools of the trade are bullhooks, which elephants are beaten with, whips, which elephants are lashed with, blow torches, which elephants are burned with and electric prods which elephants are electrocuted with.
Elephants in circuses are kept in filthy cramped conditions where they are shackled and unable to move. When the elephants are being shuffled across the country they are still trapped in sweltering, cramped and shackled conditions. Much like the other horrific daily abuses the elephants are subjected to, the elephant's living conditions are not usually seen by the public.
At least 24 elephants have died at the hands of Barnum & Bailey and Ringling Brothers since 1992.
Baby elephants are violently and traumatically taken from their homelands and families in sub-Saharan Africa and Asian countries like Sumatra, Burma and India. They are taken by humans who sell them into circus slavery.
Animal circuses like Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey have been repeatedly charged by the USDA, ASPCA and others with numerous violations including physically abusing elephants, failing to provide them with adequate food and water, neglect and failure to provide medical care.
The "training" of circus elephants is a vicious process where the tools of the trade are bullhooks, which elephants are beaten with, whips, which elephants are lashed with, blow torches, which elephants are burned with and electric prods which elephants are electrocuted with.
Elephants in circuses are kept in filthy cramped conditions where they are shackled and unable to move. When the elephants are being shuffled across the country they are still trapped in sweltering, cramped and shackled conditions. Much like the other horrific daily abuses the elephants are subjected to, the elephant's living conditions are not usually seen by the public.
At least 24 elephants have died at the hands of Barnum & Bailey and Ringling Brothers since 1992.
The Circus Big Cats
Tigers and jaguars are endangered. Lions are threatened. Like elephants, big cats are not born into circuses, they are kidnapped from their wild homes and sold into their lives of slavery in animal circuses.
Big cats enslaved in the circus are subjected to brutal "training" techniques including beatings, whippings, burnings, electrocution and isolation. When they're not being forced to preform unnatural acts of exploitation, these big cats live in filthy cramped boxes and within the confines of these tight quarters the cats become severely neurotic.
Animal circuses like Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey have repeat charges against them for the abuse, neglect and deaths of big cats enslaved in their shows.
Big cats enslaved in the circus are subjected to brutal "training" techniques including beatings, whippings, burnings, electrocution and isolation. When they're not being forced to preform unnatural acts of exploitation, these big cats live in filthy cramped boxes and within the confines of these tight quarters the cats become severely neurotic.
Animal circuses like Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey have repeat charges against them for the abuse, neglect and deaths of big cats enslaved in their shows.
The Circus Horses
There is very little protection provided for circus "wild animals", such as bears, big cats and elephants, under the USDA US Animal Welfare Act. Even less of the so called regulations are enforced by the USDA. However, what minimal standards of treatment exist for these "wild animals", does not exist for domesticated animals enslaved by the circus. Animals like horses or dogs that are subjected to the same brutal "training" as the wild animals.
The fact that no real protection exists for domesticated circus animals means that the vicious acts of cruelty they are subjected to at the hands of humans is even that much harder to prosecute.
The fact that no real protection exists for domesticated circus animals means that the vicious acts of cruelty they are subjected to at the hands of humans is even that much harder to prosecute.
