We are entering the "Age of Benevolence." It is the next stop on the train called "Future USA."
March 5 was a good day for elephants. (click here) Not the elephants roaming free
in their natural habitat -- for those elephants every day is a good day.
I am referring to 43 Asian elephants that Ringling Brothers and Barnum
& Bailey circus keeps in chains and tortures with bullhooks (long
poles with sharp hooks on the end) in order for them to do tricks in the
circus for us humans and our kiddies. Families have attended Ringling
Brothers three touring circuses with their annual 1,000 shows to witness
elephants doing completely unnatural acts on command under a colourful
circus tent for decades. But these cruel acts will be a thing of the
past starting in 2018 as announced by Feld Entertainment in the New York Times.
It's about time, since it was 1870 when the circus started abusing elephants. For 35 of these years multiple animal rights groups protested this cruelty and provided the public with undercover footage of Ringling Brothers abusing baby elephants....
Performance animals are not where the future lies. I didn't define it, the younger generations are setting the standard. They are heroes, greater than Captain America with the Avengers. The young generation in the USA sees themselves as a member of a world protected from pain and suffering. It is interesting.
When it comes to zoos, simple spectacles of flesh and bones won't receive a high rating to the purpose of the zoo. The giraffe spots might be odd and interesting to the eye, but, what is that animal doing at a zoo and are they content welcoming the zoo as a home.
This generation is more sensitive to the 'real world.' They are exposed to a world of hurt over the internet and they understand their own well being and ask why isn't that the reality of all others. Their world of concern and moral content includes the animals in their personal sphere including zoos.
We already know the zoos are not a place where large and/or predatory animals are happy on display. Their need for space and love of freedom with members of a herd or pride they call family is their deepest understanding of their world. When those components are eliminated for spectators and caregivers they aren't necessarily happy no matter their birth in the same facility.
So the generation of benevolence and conscience will seek information and experience with animals. But, they won't be proud of a zoo that contains animals unhappy seeking avoidance of the human's definition of their life.
Zoos currently have some magnificent animals and to the end of saving the species they are serving a purpose. But, to make a zoo the destination of a species is not acceptable and the moral content of their values want to know habitat is being protected and the species can be found in their native home.
It's about time, since it was 1870 when the circus started abusing elephants. For 35 of these years multiple animal rights groups protested this cruelty and provided the public with undercover footage of Ringling Brothers abusing baby elephants....
Performance animals are not where the future lies. I didn't define it, the younger generations are setting the standard. They are heroes, greater than Captain America with the Avengers. The young generation in the USA sees themselves as a member of a world protected from pain and suffering. It is interesting.
When it comes to zoos, simple spectacles of flesh and bones won't receive a high rating to the purpose of the zoo. The giraffe spots might be odd and interesting to the eye, but, what is that animal doing at a zoo and are they content welcoming the zoo as a home.
This generation is more sensitive to the 'real world.' They are exposed to a world of hurt over the internet and they understand their own well being and ask why isn't that the reality of all others. Their world of concern and moral content includes the animals in their personal sphere including zoos.
We already know the zoos are not a place where large and/or predatory animals are happy on display. Their need for space and love of freedom with members of a herd or pride they call family is their deepest understanding of their world. When those components are eliminated for spectators and caregivers they aren't necessarily happy no matter their birth in the same facility.
So the generation of benevolence and conscience will seek information and experience with animals. But, they won't be proud of a zoo that contains animals unhappy seeking avoidance of the human's definition of their life.
Zoos currently have some magnificent animals and to the end of saving the species they are serving a purpose. But, to make a zoo the destination of a species is not acceptable and the moral content of their values want to know habitat is being protected and the species can be found in their native home.
