Bolivia Bans the Use of Animals in Circuses
Published July 15, 2009 @ 07:47PM PT
Here's your encouraging animal news of the day:
LA PAZ, Bolivia, July 14, 2009 (ENS) - Bolivian President Evo Morales has signed the world's first law prohibiting the use of both wild and domestic animals in traveling circuses.
This is the first national law to ban the use of both domestic and wild animals in circuses. To date, Croatia, Singapore, Austria, Israel and Costa Rica have all banned wild animals in circuses. Similar bans on animal use in traveling circuses in Costa Rica, Finland and Denmark only prohibit the use of wild animals or certain species.
Major kudos to Bolivia! Let's hope the rest of the world (including this waaaay-behind country) catches up soon. Read more here.
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Stephanie Ernst is an independent animal rights advocate, a vegan, a tree-hugging environmentalist, and a freelance editor and writer. She lives in St. Louis with an aging corgi-lab and an adolescent rescued pit bull. In her advocacy, she works to challenge prevailing perceptions of animals, to show the connections between animal exploitation and other injustices, to help people see that animals are more like us than different, and to encourage compassionate, nonviolent living and eating.
Most "developed" countries (including US) should use the example of Bolivia - Sign a law prohibiting greedy, unscrupulous people to profit from animal use, abuse and suffering! Que viva Bolivia!
Posted by Lily Rocco on 07/18/2009 @ 01:44PM PT
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