Animals Used for Entertainment
These days, we have the Internet, extreme sports, movie theatres, dozens of television channels, countless books and more, yet some people still abuse animals for so-called “entertainment”.
Animals suffer horribly for the sake of this “entertainment”. They are beaten or starved until they learn to perform silly tricks in circuses; they are confined to small cages and deprived of all that is natural and important to them in zoos; they are forced to run for their lives at races or fight other animals to the death and they are even treated poorly behind the scenes of certain film sets.
Animals suffer a lifetime when they are kept behind bars in a zoo or within the glass walls of an aquarium – just so people can peer at them for about 30 seconds or taunt them, as is unfortunately common in that setting. Keeping fish, birds and other animals confined to prisons in homes is no less cruel.
Zoos claim to be educational, but the message they give children is harmful: Abusing animals by jailing them is OK. Sadly, circuses teach children that beating animals with a whip is acceptable.
Fortunately, people around the world are starting to realise that cruelty is not entertaining and are demanding that animal acts be banned. You can help: Perhaps the single best way to end the abuse of animals used for entertainment is to boycott circuses, aquaria, horse races, zoos and other similar events. When the profits disappear, so will the cruelty.
