RedPhoenixxx wrote:
Guenny wrote:
Too black and white, dear Red. The ones that are entertaining are the ones that create the most awareness.
Too black and white, dear Guenny. Wild bears in circus with a funny hat riding a bycicle don't create "awareness", nor do they have any kind of scientific value. It's pure entertainement. And it's pure fucked-up.
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the few, tortured beasts that have been sacrificed to the public eye have done unmeasurable amounts of good for their wild brethren.
Debatable.
What's not debatable is that there are lots of ways to create awareness and raise scientific understanding without torturing anything. To be honest, and I'm hoping Moe won't read this, the US is the world leader in creating these kinds of environments.
Do they still have bears riding unicycles in the circus? Forgive my ignorance, but I'd hope that's fallen out of favor. Still, though, how can you say that a 5 year old watching that majestic grizzly ride around the three-ring wasn't mesmerized and motivated to become a conversationalist?
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that, especially in modern times, in America, that most people who work with wild animals do it because they love the animals, not because they want to exploit them. I'm not saying that there's not someone higher up doing the exploiting, but the people who actually work in close proximity with them really do it because they love them and want to create awareness. There are bigger battles to fight for animals rights protection than Sea World and zoos. You might be a bit closer with the circus, though.
Edited, Feb 25th 2010 12:14pm by Guenny
