May 04, 2017 · One clear example of what a dramatic shift we’ve seen in attitudes toward animal circuses is in the legislative sphere. Back in 1995, Newt Gingrich helped Ringling bring a sad parade of 14 captive elephants to Capitol Hill for an event with members of Congress—and the circus made him an honorary ringmaster.
Cass Sunstein, who runs the White House’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, has written that animals should be given standing to sue humans in court (presumably with taxpayer funds for court-appointed lawyers).
May 22, 2012 · PETA has joined Animal Defenders International in filing a lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) for illegally issuing permits allowing ... it didn’t tell the public about four of the elephants Ringling sought to export, so PETA and the public were illegally deprived of some of the information related to the applications ...
May 31, 2013 · PETA wrong about Ringling Bros. Circus A recent commentary by a lawyer for the animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals made a number of allegations against Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus that demand correction.
Thirty-six years of PETA protests against 146-year-old Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus—in which members and supporters revealed that animals were beaten and otherwise abused—have reduced attendance to the point of no return.
Back in 1995, Newt Gingrich helped Ringling bring a sad parade of 14 captive elephants to Capitol Hill for an event with members of Congress —and the circus made him an honorary ringmaster. PETA protestors were outside being arrested during the event, moving one senator to give an impassioned plea for elephants on the Senate floor. But despite this, much of the coverage that day focused on the circus’s spectacle rather than the abuse that we were there to expose.
In March 2015, when Ringling first announced that it would no longer use elephants in its shows, it said that it would phase them out completely by 2018. But thanks to ever-growing public opposition to the outfit, by May 2016, the elephants were off the road.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is taking to America’s courts to give animals legal “rights.” You might remember the utterly frivolous lawsuit filed by PETA against Sea World, which argued that the park’s famed killer whales were in fact “slaves” under the 13 th Amendment. A federal judge in California held a hearing in that case yesterday, and reports suggested he was rightly skeptical of PETA’s arguments. Experts predict PETA will fail, but winning isn’t entirely the point: PETA just wants news hits, and it has won plenty of them.
One of the goals of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is to grant animals the same legal rights as people , but this foolish quest suffered double setbacks this week. PETA is no stranger to losing in the courtroom—like its frivolous case claiming that Sea World’s performing whales were slaves or a not-at-all-frivolous case involving a breach of confidentiality that a jury found cost a police officer his job—but it added two new defeats to its list, one in California and one in Kansas.