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Show The Salt Lake Tribune NATION Wednesday, June 14, 2000 ‘Animal Activists Push for Elephant-Free Circuses THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — What's a circus withoutan elephant? Alot more humane and safe, game-show host Bob Barker andother animal activists ___toldlawmakersTuesdayas they tried to__ persuade Congress to outlaw use of the 5= animals in traveling shows and for les. purposes,Farr said the animals have been known to go on rampages, injuring and killing people. However, circuses, zoos and their researchers say their profession is educa- trainers or handlers, a job whichstatisti- butthe cruelty of circus andzoo life makes cally has the nation’s highestrisk of a fatal more hi deaths inevitable in the However, circus and zoo advocates say “The cry of a threat to the public is they treat the animals well and animal- simply a smokescreen for yet anotheref- rights advocates are manipulating statis- fort by the more extreme elements of the tics just to push their agenda. animal-rights movement to attack a be- killed by circus elephant,” said David Rawls, ownerofthe KellyMiller Circusin elephants. Hugo, Okla. DonYoung,R-Alaska. conservation should be made with input from people wholive and work with these animals 365 days a year rather than byce- lebrities or activists who specialize in media stunts and lobbying,”said Joan Galvin, spokeswoman for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus ofVienna, Va. They also have support from Both sides marched outstatistics and videotapes to provetheir point ata hearing of = House Judiciary Committee's crime panel, Barker, host of “The Price Is Right,” showed a videotape of an elephant ram- paging through a crowdafterbreaking free from its trainers in 1992. Barker said that not only haveat least 30 people have been work injury, the Labor Departmentsaid in a 1997report. Ringling Bros. veterinarian Dennis Schmitt showed a videotape oftheir elephants’care. He said elephants in circuses have fewerstillborn calves than those in “Not one circus patron has ever been tional, entertainingandvital to the future _ lovedAmerican institution, the circus, existence of the Asian and African underthe guise ofpublic safety,” said Rep. “Decisions about elephant welfare and A bill to dojust that has been introduced by Rep. Sam Farr, D-+ 5 : “These are animals the wild and to treat them otherwise is unwise, is wrong and does not honoror recognize the power and majesty ofthese beasts,” Farr said. To support his argumentthat elephants should not be used for entertainment lawmakers. AS killed by circus or zoo elephants since 1983, “None of the 30 deaths onthelist that has been circulated involves a circus patron,andinfact, they could only find five incidents involvingcircus elephants going back almost 20 years. More than10 million people haveridden elephantsat circuses in ) prevent circuses from exhibiting_ elephants — oneoftheflagship animals of acircus — wouldcritically change not only the captive population of elephants in North America but also the character of circuses as well,” Schmitt said. 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