Naked Woman-Chained And ‘Beaten’ Protest Animal Circuses Galway

galway | animal rights | event notice Friday January 06, 2006 14:16 by Amanda Kiely - Animal Rights Action Network (ARAN) arancampaigns at eircom dot net ARAN Po Box 722 Kildare 087-6275579

‘Bruised’ and Sprawling on the Ground, ARAN Beauty Bares All

For Immediate Release:
January 10th 2005

Contact:
John Carmody 087-6275579

Galway – Wearing nothing but shackles and covered in “scars” and “bruises” as a result of violent “beatings” an everyday for animals in circuses, a curvy blonde will expose the arrival of animal act circuses into Galway in front of a banner that reads, “shackled, lonely, beaten” accompanying this protest will also be members of Animal Rights Action Network (ARAN) with signs reading – “the slave trade is alive and kicking” and chanting “boycott animal act circuses” whilst giving out leaflets to potential circus goers.

Date: Tuesday,10 January
Time: 12.00 noon
Place: Beside Oscar Wilde Monument on Shop Street

Why all the fuss? In order to force wild animals to perform stressful and often painful acts, trainers use metal bullhooks, whips, muzzles and electric prods. These horribly cruel training methods are commonly used in Irish circuses all over the country. This is part of ARAN’s ongoing campaign around the country to show the misguided public that, animals in circuses have being taken from the wild at some stage in their life for a lifetime of boredom, misery, cheap tricks and cruelty. Animals in circuses really are not volunteers; they are slaves, confined to their ‘beast’ wagons for some 23 hours a day with no room to exercise compared to that of their homes in the wild. Animals in circuses regardless of them being ‘born’ in the circus, still have the instincts of their fellow companions in the wild, they like to roam for miles, go hunting for food and vegetation and raise their young. ARAN will also be distributing DVD’s of a recent undercover investigation into Irish Circuses by our colleagues at Animal Defenders International that show’s cruelty, neglect, abuse, beatings and horrid conditions.

“This cruelty and these beatings are what the circus is desperate to hide from the public,” says ARAN’s stripper for a cause Janine Foley. One hour of my discomfort is nothing compared to what these poor animals are going through in the traveling circus. “I have chosen to be here, these animals are not volunteers. They have been deprived of their precious freedom and beaten for a lifetime of cheap tricks.”

ARAN’s ‘Naked’ circus campaign will also be visiting Cork, Galway, Belfast.

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