I admit to being a happy meat eater and even have taken my older daughter to a circus before I knew better. When I say knew better, I mean about the torture and suffering that animals are made to endure for human entertainment.

Some animal rights organizations, especially inside the U.S., has some issues they need to work out when it comes to dealing with communities of color, pero at least one country in Latin America is trying to reconceptualize what entertainment is in the context of “circus” by banning wild and domestic animals in traveling circuses.

Bolivian President Evo Morales has signed the world’s first law prohibiting the use of both wild and domestic animals in traveling circuses…The new law bans the use of wild and domestic animals in circuses in the Bolivia, as their conditions and confinement are considered acts of cruelty.

The circuses will be allowed one year to adapt their shows to a humans-only program and during this time, the government will issue regulations on confiscation and monetary sanctions for any breaches of the law.

Via / Vegans of Color
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