UK to Ban Animal Circuses After Cruelty Exposed
Last week, undercover footage exposed to public the brutal treatment of Anne, a 59-year old Asian elephant owned by a UK traveling circus, inflicted by its trainer — and, presumably, this filmed abuse reflects the generally inhumane treatment experienced by circus animals on a regular basis.
Faced with the indisputable horrors related to animal circuses in the UK, the nation’s Environmental Minister has been spurred to enact a ban that animal-rights groups have been requesting for decades.
(Source: treehugger.com, via liberal-life-deactivated2011110)
