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Animals exploited

Good riddance to Ringling Bros. Circus. Too bad it took 146 years of them exploiting and abusing animals to finally come to an end.

I could never understand why people found it entertaining to watch wild animals forced to perform stupid tricks that are unnatural to their normal behavior.

Gilbert Schwartz, Aventura

This story was originally published January 18, 2017 at 7:52 PM with the headline "Animals exploited."

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