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HELP MASSACHUSETTS CIRCUS ANIMALS!

Please read the summary below of Senate Bill 1840 sponsored by Senator Robert Hedlund.

Senate Bill 1840 if passed would stop the use of primates, large cats, bears, elephants, giraffes, rhinoceroses and hippopotamuses in traveling shows and circuses. The inherent cruelty of traveling 50 weeks a year, forced separation of herds and babies, being chained 20 hours a day, restrictive caging and coercive training methods are just some of the abhorrent reasons for spawning our legislation. Senate Bill 1840 if passed would put Massachusetts as the first state to force a transformation in the cruel circus industry which would not take place otherwise. Similar legislation has already been passed in six countries and over 300 municipalities around the world. The definition of modern day animal care eschews everything the circus practices. Our bill returns everything natural denied these animals in the circus industry and reestablishes dignity to some of the worlds most noble and socially complex creatures. With a following through from other states, traveling shows would have no other choice than to retire these species to our modern day multi-acreage zoos and sanctuaries to live out their lives, deliver education and truly support conservation.

View the accusation from Feld Entertainment and the reply from Senator Hedlund regarding last years legislation!

Senate Bill 1840 has been sent to the Joint Committee on Tourism, Arts and Cultural Development and will be voted on in either April or May of 2005. Please contact each of the committee members below and urge them to support Senate Bill 1840. Please contact your own senator and representative also and ask them to support this bill.