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Animals in the Circus Hit, Bullied, Chained, and Deprived

In 2015, an eyewitness visited Suzhou, China, which encompasses more than 300 circuses, to go inside 10 different circuses and animal training facilities. What they documented there was horrifying.

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“Almost all of us grew up eating meat, wearing leather, and going to circuses and zoos. We never considered the impact of these actions on the animals involved. For whatever reason, you are now asking the question: Why should animals have rights?”

— Ingrid E. Newkirk, PETA President and co-author of Animalkind

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