Ringling Bros. Battles to Keep Elephants (Fighting animal rights advocates)

The Las Vegas Sun ^ | June 3, 2006 | David Crary , AP

[jokar]

you think everyhting ought to be for YOUR entertainment

You don't even know me, how can you even say what I want?
I could be a veterinarian working at a rescue ranch for animals.
SNAP out or it. You're thinking like liberal.

[discostu]

RB teaches kids to be compassionate and respect the animals and they treat them humanely, if their parents bring them to the pre-show and they get lucky with the births the kids will actually get to touch a baby elephant, which kicks the crap out of preserves and DVD for teaching an appreciation of animals. They also do more to breed elephants and introduce them to the wild (it's actually a very small percentage that wind up in the shows) than any other organization on the planet. All the griping the PETA idiots do about RB is based on 40 year-old footage from a Mexican circus, the reality of the modern American circus is very different, most people who've obedience trained their dogs have come closer to abusing animals than RB.

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

Thanks for your articulate response.
I will now check this information out further to see if i am wrong about RB.

[Ditter]

I am the last person in the universe to agree with PETA on anything but I have come to hate circuses and zoos. I loved going to zoos as a child and took my kids when they were little but now when I think of wild animals in a 4x4 cage I am sick at heart. Circuses are no better. Wild animal parks where people are in cages (vehicles) and the animals are free to move around are OK.