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1. Facts: Circuses
- www.idausa.org
- Animals used in circuses are unwilling participants in a show that jeopardizes their health and mental well-being and the lives of human spectators and performers. ...
- Circuses force animals to perform tricks that have nothing to do with how these magnificent creatures behave in the wild. ... Circuses claim to use "positive reinforcement" and to base their tricks on behaviors that animals carry out naturally. ...
- Animals in circuses either travel in 18-wheelers or by train. ...
- circuses that use animals travel as many as 48 weeks out of the year and cover thousands of miles. Some circuses go to warmer states in the summer, even though the animals may suffer in extreme temperatures. ...
- Elephants, tigers, chimpanzees, and other animals used in circuses are complex creatures—not robots to be stacked in boxes and hauled to the next show. ... Yet in circuses, baby elephants are ripped from their mothers' sides as young as one year old because baby elephants are cute and draw a crowd which in turn helps the circus reap profit. ...
- Elephants in circuses constantly sway back and forth in their chains, and tigers constantly pace in their cages. ...
- Contrary to what circuses say and the justification some schools use for taking students to circuses, seeing animals in circuses does not provide a realistic educational tool because the animals are forced to perform tricks and live in conditions that are not natural for them. ...
- Animals in circuses are a threat to public safety. ...
- Elephants in circuses have gone on rampages, injuring and killing spectators and causing property damage. ...
- Some elephants used in circuses have been found to carry a human strain of tuberculosis (TB). ...
- Fun circuses.
- An end to animal circuses doesn't mean an end to fun. There are many circuses that are exciting and entertaining without abusing animals. Cirque du Soleil, The New Pickle Family Circus, Circus Smirkus, Cirque Eloize, Circus Oz and the Mexican National Circus are all wonderful circuses that offer family entertainment using only willing human performers. ...
2. Circuses
- www.animalliberation.org.au
- Animals in circuses .
- What's wrong with animals in circuses? .
- Circuses can never make such changes and will always provide a restricted and impoverished environment. ...
- Circuses are constantly travelling from town to town, with the animals locked in small travelling wagons. On site, circuses set up temporary cages and enclosures that are still small and dull. ...
- Although some circuses are better than others at caring for their animals, no circus can ever provide an acceptable way of life for an animal. ...
- The alternative is to have only human acts in circuses: trapeze artists, acrobats, tight rope walkers, clowns, jugglers, and all the other amazing skills humans are capable of. ...
- Some of the animals kept in circuses naturally live in close family groups, some are active and cover large distances in search of food, and all have to use their intelligence to solve the daily problems involved in their survival. ...
- Even comparing circuses to the changes taking place in zoos makes it obvious how inadequate the circus environment is and always will be. ...
- From time to time circuses have been found guilty of cruelty, for example, for having a collar or halter embedded in an animal's flesh, for neglect, or for inadequate cage sizes. ...
- Animal Liberation is not the only organisation opposed to the use of animals in circuses. RSPCA Australia has a policy against the display of animals in circuses. The Conservation Council of South Australia has issued a press release against the use of exotic animals in circuses. If you would like to find out more about these views, go Views about animals in circuses. ...
- Recognising that circuses are an inadequate home for animals, 36 councils around Australia have passed laws banning circuses with animals from council controlled land. ...
- In 1992 it became illegal in the Australian Capital Territory to confine exotic animals in circuses. ...
3. IDA Campaigns, Circuses
- www.idausa.org
- Never attend circuses that include animals! Encourage friends and family members to only attend circuses that show the exciting talents of human performers. ...
- Let them know you don't expect them to have fully investigated everything they endorse, but that you would like to share with them what you know about circuses. ...
- Plan a protest and leaflet every show! Most people don't really know what happens to animals in circuses and although children love circuses, they hate the idea of animals being abused. ...
4. Bread And Circuses
- www.shout.net
- Bread And Circuses.
- (Conspiracy Nation, 8/14/02) -- At times, the phrase "bread and circuses" is evoked to sorrowfully describe the American citizenry. The term, "bread and circuses", is an ancient one, dating back to Roman times.
- Satire X, lines 77 through 80 of his book, Iuvenalis Saturae (Satires of Juvenal), is the origin of the term, "bread and circuses":.
- Now that no one buys our votes, the public has long since cast off its cares; the people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions and all else, now meddles no more and longs eagerly for just two things -- bread and circuses.
- Bread And Circuses.
- Substitute professional sports for circuses. ... The "greatest generation" likes bread and circuses also, but they are hep on how to milk the system. ...
- "Now that no one buys our votes, the public has long since cast off its cares; the people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions and all else, now meddles no more and longs eagerly for just two things -- bread and circuses. ...
5. Hunger circus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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- Part of Nicolae Ceauşescu's program of systematization during his period as ruler of Romania was the construction of a series of buildings now universally known in Romania as "hunger circuses" or "circuses of hunger" (in Romanian, "circurile foamei" or "circuri ale foamei").
- The name "hunger circuses," now so universally used as to have almost suppressed the memory of the official communist-era term, derived from the irony of constructing these massive food-related buildings during a period when food was scarce throughout Romania (due to Ceauşescu's policy of exporting most of Romania's agricultural produce in order to pay off the foreign debt).
- At the time of Ceauşescu's downfall and execution, only two hunger circuses had been completed: one of these, Pantelimon, now forms part of a public market in the Delfinului area of Bucharest; the other, also in Bucharest, forms part of the Unirea shopping mall, nestled between Lipscani and the Centru Civic. ...
6. CANTERBURY ANIMAL RESPECT NETWORK HOMEPAGE 2004 - CIRCUSES
- www.carn-age.org.uk
- LIVING DEATH IN CIRCUSES.
- CIRCUSES:.
- Circuses are no life for wild animals like elephants, giraffes, tigers and lions. ...
- Animals in circuses lack any real legal protection. ... Consequently, the living conditions and safety standards of circuses are appalling.
- When an animal can no longer perform reasonably well it may be sold on to other circuses; to a zoo; to a game farm to be shot for 'recreation' or for exotic meat, or to a 'research' laboratory to end its life in more misery, confinement and torture.
- Elephants travelling with circuses or shows are often forced to stand in their own excrement because they are chained. ...
- Popular tools of discipline which are used in many elephant 'management' programmes and circuses are the bull hook (ankus) - a sharp pointed steel hook with a handle, used for punishment and prodding to discourage undesired behaviour. ...
- A former elephant trainer reviewed the video and commented: "All elephants used in circuses are trained in this fashion. ...
- In EIRE, circuses are not regulated in any way. Circuses that have travelled to Eire have been seen on their way back to the continent at Dover - trailer after trailer of pitiful animals that have been hauled across the English channel, through England and Wales, across the Irish Sea, all round Ireland and then back through the UK to do the rounds of mainland Europe.
- Circuses claim that their animals are content. ...
- Some circuses claim to be better than others, but because of the nature of the circus, wild animals are always kept in cramped, unnatural conditions, unable to exercise or to display their natural behaviour patterns. These conditions are now illegal in zoos (!) but are still permitted in circuses.
- Circuses strip the animals of their dignity, respect and natural beauty. ... Not all circuses and zoos are cruel. ... Boycott animal circuses.
7. United Charities Against Animal Circuses (Southampton)
- www.hants.gov.uk
- Organisation: United Charities Against Animal Circuses (Southampton) Contact: Mrs S M Clayton Phone: 023 8076 8174 Description: This is a corporate organisation comprising Southampton animal charities, all naturally, in sympathy with banning animal circuses from public land (now achieved) and private land and wanting a national ban on this exploitation of Wildlife and domestic animals. ...
8. Bread Not Circuses - Home
- www.breadnotcircuses.org
- bread not circuses.
- Mar 9 2001 - Bread Not Circuses sends a letter to Canada's immigration minister seeking assurance that "inadmissible persons" will not be allowed into Canada. ...
- (Bread Not Circuses' Newsletter).
- Towards a Socially Responsible Olympic Games: The Bread Not Circuses Standards.
- ENDORSERS of Bread Not Circuses.
- To endorse Bread Not Circuses, please click here to fill out our endorsement letter. ...
- Bread Not Circuses Coalition.
9. Circus Animals
- www.starbreezes.com
- Circuses are supposed to be for fun, children love them. ...
- Circuses travel to many locations and water is limited in some locations, bathing and cleaning the animals living quarters is given low priority where water is limited. ...
- Many circuses give no consideration to climate and the animals are exposed to extreme heat or cold. ...
- Training: Ever wonder how circuses manage to get the animals to perform so well? Animals do not perform the acts you see in the circus naturally. ...
- DON’T visit circuses that have animals. There are a number of cruelty free circuses that only display human acts. For a list of cruelty free circuses, please visit Circuses that do not use animal acts. ...
- Lawfully protest circuses that contain animal acts. Educate potential visitors about what really goes on in some circuses. ...
- Circuses. ...
10. RSPCA: Campaigns
- www.rspca.org.au
- The RSPCA is opposed to the use exotic wild animals in circuses and believes that it is impossible for the activities of wild animals in circuses to ever achieve any worthwhile goals in education, research or conservation. ...
- Why the RSPCA opposes the use of wild animals in Circuses.
- The RSPCA's concerns over the use of wild animals in circuses are based on the problems resulting from their close confinement and continual transportation. ...
- RSPCA Australia believes that the major problems with the keeping of wild animals in circuses identified within this report are equally applicable to circuses in Australia. ...
- The data from the UK Report shows that in UK circuses wild animals spent the majority of their time in close confinement: big cats (tigers and lions) spent over 90% of their time in their night or travel quarters, which on average provided less than 0. ...
- All species of wild animals in the circuses studied in the UK report showed abnormal behaviour patterns, occupying up to 30% of their time. ...
- RSPCA Australia has no reason to believe that the conditions in Australian circuses are significantly different from those which resulted in the problems identified in the UK report. The RSPCA believes that the nature of circus life is such that it cannot provide a suitable environment for those species of wild animals which are traditionally used in circuses. ...
- In 1990 an animal behaviourist, Dr Marthe Kiley-Worthington published an independent scientific report on animals in circuses based on research largely funded by the UK RSPCA.
- Circuses exist to provide a form of public entertainment. The RSPCA can see no possible benefit to animal welfare or conservation to be derived from the use of animals in circuses. ...
- The RSPCA is not primarily a conservation organisation but we know of no reputable conservation body, either in Britain or internationally, that would support the view expressed in the Report that circuses offer conservation, education and scientific benefits. ...
- Since there is evidence of suffering, and no evidence of animal welfare benefit of any kind, the RSPCA concludes that there is no justification for the use of wild animals in circuses.
- The RSPCA can see no way in which the suffering associated with the keeping of wild animals in circuses can be totally eliminated; the very nature of the circus business imposes such constraints on the way in which wild animals are kept that there must always be significant levels of stress. ...
- In the UK more than 200 local authorities have already placed a ban on performances of circuses using wild animals, including London. ... This number will grow, as research indicates that the majority of people in the UK are opposed to circuses with wild animals.
11. Animal-Free Circuses and Entertainment
- www.hsus.org
- Circuses.
- Home >> Wildlife >> Issues Facing Wildlife >> Circuses >> Animal-Free Circuses and Entertainment .
- Animal-Free Circuses and Entertainment.
- Animals in circuses often suffer stress, neglect, isolation and possibly deliberate abuse. ...
- Animal-free circuses eliminate the possibility of injury or death caused by wild animals. There are many entertaining, intelligent and safe alternatives to the abusive and dangerous form of entertainment that traditional animal circuses present.
- As the public becomes more informed about the negative side of traditional animal circuses, many clubs, organizations, charities, and schools are choosing to sponsor cruelty-free entertainment for their events. ...
- A List of Animal-Free Circuses.
- Circuses and the Law.
- What You Can Do about Circuses.
12. COK > Circuses: Cruelty for Profit
- www.cok-online.org
- Circuses:Cruelty for Profit .
- Circuses and other traveling animal acts go through a great deal of trouble to bring us such "entertainment" as tigers jumping through fire, elephants standing on their heads, and seals playing musical horns. However, the same circuses are desperate to hide the fact that the animals perform solely out of fear. In contrast to the glitter often associated with circuses, the life of most animals forced to perform is little more than a dismal and utterly pathetic existence. ...
- According to former animal trainer Pat Derby, "After 25 years of observing and documenting circuses, I know that there are no kind animal trainers. ...
- Animals in circuses travel up to 50 weeks each year. Tigers, horses, monkeys, elephants, and other animals used in circuses are confined to filthy railroad cars without temperature control (even in temperatures as high as 100 degrees and as low as freezing). ...
- Once animals have outlived their "usefulness" to circuses and other traveling animals acts, they are either relegated to permanent winter quarters (usually cages), or are sold to other circuses, roadside zoos, canned hunting facilities (to be shot for recreation), and sometimes even animal research laboratories. Still in confinement, most animals used in circuses live out their lives in the same misery they were subjected to during their performing years. ...
- As abuse to animals in circuses rises, so does the frequency at which they begin to fight back. ...
- One police officer who had to kill a rampaging elephant states, "I think these elephants are trying to tell us that zoos and circuses are not what God created them for … but we have not been listening. ...
- Circuses will stop using animals when we stop giving them our money. Boycott all circuses and traveling acts that use animals. ...
- I have come to realize, through all the circuses that I have worked for, that mistreatment of animals is a standard part of training and is thought to be a "necessary" part of exhibiting them. ...
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