For over 100 years, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus has been transforming majestic, stunning, elegant creatures into flinching, helpless entities who balance balls on their noses, juggle bowling pins, stand on one foot, and jump through hoops for the sake of entertaining apathetic humans and lining the pockets of circus owners. Beautiful lions and elephants and bears were never meant to be captured and held in cages or be poked with sticks and zapped with stun guns while performing before crowds of noisy, cheering humans. Elephants were never supposed to wear sequined tiaras and tigers were never meant to walk on balance beams.
I say good riddance to the circus and all that it stands for. Unfortunately, all the animals they have held in captivity and bred for their own financial gain cannot be released into the wild, but, instead, will be held in animal
conservation areas holding pens created by the circus until they eventually find peace and tranquility in their sad lives by dying in captivity.
There are plenty of options for animal-free circuses, people just have to seek them out. Be more responsible to the world and its creatures. I say don't ever buy a ticket to a circus with animals. (Or a zoo ... fuck zoos, too).
Look at the faces of these animals, then decide if animal entertainment is worthy of condoning.
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| Sad Elephants. Photot credit Bill Sikes/AP |
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| Sad Tigers. Photo credit chensiyuan/Wikipedia |
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| Sad bear. Photo credit Getty Images/abc news |
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