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Dirty Secrets Under the Big Top
Lawsuits charge Ringling Bros. with abusing animals, endangering public health, and sabotaging its critics via former CIA spooks. This October, a federal court could finally determine whether rough, regular treatment of endangered Asian elephants by circus handlers constitutes illegal animal abuse. Could this be the end of the circus as we know it?
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Steve Jones |
08-15-2008 |
Animal Issues
Animal Rights and Wrongs at the Greatest Show on Earthnew
The circus is an outdated, primitive, hostile and indefensibly lame custom that our society should have abandoned long ago.
Westword |
Adam Cayton-Holland |
10-12-2005 |
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