from Roberta Wright - SPEAK Tucson
[email protected]
It's that time of year again, and letters to the editor
are needed to combat circus fever in Tucson. Below is my letter, sent to
[email protected]
Arizona Daily Star
Dear Editor:
Where but in Tucson could commercial enterprises like
rodeos and circuses get so much free publicity from the media? I was
sickened by pictures of elephants walking on the hideously hot summer
pavement on their way to the community center, while mothers and their
small children
looked on in awe. Why doesn't the paper run just as big
a story about the tragedy of these wonderful creatures living their
whole lives in confinement, trained to do things they would never do in
the wild, and influencing the minds of youngsters who then believe that
all these things are completely natural? Who will tell these children
that what they are seeing are all lies? Their parents? Apparently not.
And when they leave the circus, what do they take from the experience?
That all is well with the huge wild animals they saw so callously
displayed for human entertainment.
The failure to empathize with the plight of these
animals is truly mind-boggling. When is the public going to wake up and
realize that we cannot dominate and beat into submission every living
creature for gratuitous reasons? When are we going to become
compassionate consumers of
our planet rather than rapists and pillagers of
everything we see? Ringling Bros. is just the tip of the iceberg, but we
should not be giving them a free ride without demanding a full and
complete picture of the atrocity.
Sincerely,
Roberta S. Wright, Founder
Supporting and Promoting Ethics for the Animal Kingdom
(SPEAK)
[email protected]
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