Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Zoo Wuppertal/Germany #1


"Elephant cows and babies at Wuppertal Zoo, August 2006."

Yesterday I received some outstanding pictures by regular mail, from Filipe von Gilsa, of elephants in both zoos and circuses in Europe. These first four are from Zoo Wuppertal where he is employed as an elephant keeper. You will note that some were taken just last month.
Also included were a variety of pictures of unusually large male elephants in circuses over there that I will send out Sunday. The accompanying comments are his.

Posted by Buckles at 9/19/2006 06:04:00 AM

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Chalk one up for the good guys. Today Newsday the Long Island edition reported the following. "Six People Convicted of conspiring to incite vandalism were connected to an animal rights group." One of the group a Long Island resident was connected to the group,Stop Huntington Animal Cruelty, SHAC. They have staged protests at RBBBs appearances at Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale. RBBB is mentioned in the article.
You can go to www.newsday.com/news/printededition/stories/
to check out the entire story.

19 September, 2006 10:58
Anonymous said...

Here's a better link to the story.

http://www.newsday.com/business/ny-bzstep194897507sep19,0,7874556.story

When we were playing North Brunswick, NJ last week a Police Lt came by the show to talk with me about possible activist activity and mentioned that several of the victims of the SHAC campaign lived in the community. He told me how SHAC, or people encouraged by SHAC went so far as to vandalize the homes of office assistants and temp workers. It seems that in the name of "free speech" anyone with any association with the lab was fair game for property destruction and threats of violence. Animal Liberation is a utopian philosophical ideology, and like many extremist utopian ideologies, the end seems to justify the means. Certainly we've all seen that in anti-circus campaigns where behavioral realities (in training) associated with social hierarchies are characterized as abusive or cruel and trainers depicted as sadistic; while it's quite alright for liberationists themselves to euthanise adoptable dogs and cats, because when comes right down to it liberationists don’t approve of pet ownership.

19 September, 2006 13:58

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