Video: There is no place for wild animals in the circus: activists have achieved a ban on the use of animals in performances
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
There is no place for wild animals in a circus, activists believe, and for several decades they have been campaigning for the refusal to use exotic animals in circus performances. However, we heard their arguments only now: just the other day, the New York City Council signed a ban for the use of wild animals in performances and thus set an excellent example to follow for the whole world.
One of the main arguments against such a ban was the belief that without wild animals the circus simply cannot be called a circus, and it is simply not possible for children to see such exotic animals outside of it. However, needless to say, this belief has no foundation today. Perhaps forty years ago it was, but today there are excellent zoos (provided, of course, that the zoos themselves treat animals well), where conditions for animals are created as close as possible to their natural habitat.
"We are campaigning, both in the past and now, for the safety of animals, for treating them like people themselves," says a spokesman for the New York City Council. - "And this law should ensure this attitude at the legislative level. Animals should live in nature, and not in small cages, and certainly should not experience cruelty from humans."
Cruelty is always talked about when it comes to non-domesticated animals. Wild animals are naturally incapable of obeying, and therefore any tricks they perform on stage, unfortunately, are achieved using the "carrot and stick" principle. And alas, many trainers are sure that there should be an order of magnitude more "whip" in this process. "We hope that with this law, New York will change the history of attitudes towards exotic animals in circus around the world," says the animal rights adviser.
“For years, tigers, monkeys, elephants and other animals performed tricks at circus performances in New York, and it brought them a lot of suffering. We want the history of the exploitation of innocent animals to end there,” says the adviser. "Both the public and the government need to see that the animals in the circus are victims, not volunteers."
For those who object that the circus will simply die without wild animals, there is always an example of Cirque du Soleil performances - magnificent shows without animals, based on acrobatic tricks and the beauty of human movements. Such shows gather huge halls all over the world - and such performances are truly unforgettable.
But if in New York the problem of cruelty to animals was solved at the legislative level, then in other cities and countries, alas, there are still many institutions requiring intervention. For example, last year, Four Paws International rescued dying animals in an abandoned zoo in a war zone. Read about how this happened in our article. "There is hope."
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