-NYC calls for ban on wild/exotic animal acts
Posted on March 12, 2007 1:01 PM - Comments (0) 
Help us put an end to the use of wild/exotic animals in circuses by attending this important event on March 31st!
What: Animal advocates will protest the return of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Council Member Rosie Mendez will join in to call on the City Council to pass her bill, Intro. 389. The bill will prohibit the use of wild/exotic animals in circuses and other performances throughout New York City. It currently has 13 other co-sponsors.
Who: John Phillips, executive director, League of Humane Voters of New York City (LOHV-NYC); The Honorable Rosie Mendez, Council Member -- 2nd District; Broadway actor and singer Nellie McKay; Valerie Sicignano, east coast director, In Defense of Animals (IDA); Edita Birnkrant, campaign coordinator, Friends of Animals (FoA); Elinor Molbegott, legal counsel, Humane Society of New York (HSNY); and Susan Brandt, executive director, Rational Animal.
When and Where:
Saturday, March 31st, 2007 at 11AM
Madison Square Garden
7th Avenue near 33rd St.
Photo Opportunity:
Man in elephant costume will be chained and "beaten" with the same abusive instrument -- a bull hook -- used on elephants
5 comments:
don't understant these people and wonder if the man would react in the same fashion as a animal when beaten? and in their mind its ok to enutisize animals to "controll" the over population? whats next humans too?
Let me have the first wack at this fool!!!! NUMB NUTS would not do this stunt again.
If the elephant hooks purpose was to beat elephants, surely it'd be different.. I dunno say bout 15ft long, weigh about 2 tons? And for the people out there that could lift that, you'd be very suprised to know that, trying to beat these animals up just wouldnt work. Seeing as your trying to fight the most powerful animal that walks the earth. It's like trying to outswim a fish, not gonna happen.
Was this photo taken in Tennessee? That is what you have to do if you are exhibiting elephants in that state. Also if the cat cages are open there has to be someone watching them at all times. Having stood watch, I don't know what I could have done if one got out, except scream and jump into the nearest truck cab.
Just located Bill 389 itself in case you'd like to read it. It's a shocker!!
http://webdocs.nyccouncil.info/textfiles/Int%200389-2006.htm?CFID=2201563&CFTOKEN=14538495
Also the email of all the New York City Council Members who are sponsoring it:
http://www.nyccouncil.info/issues/email_sponsors.cfm?ID=Int%200389-2006
(I'm paddling as fast as I can - and I'm just getting started!!) smile!)
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