Persuasive Essay On Circus Animal Abuse

The Bible says “Do to others as you would have them do to you”(Luke 6:31). Unless circuses intend to get beaten and abused, they have no intentions on training their animals in that way. Prince, an Asian Elephant, was part of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey circus shows. His trainers abused him and his friends in order to make them perform tricks. Fortunately, Prince is no longer a circus animal and now lives happily, but, unfortunately, over 30 of his friends are no longer in the show business because they died due to the brutal circus conditions. Circuses should not have animals in their shows.
Circus animals are abused and beaten. Trainers use bullhooks, electric prods, ropes, whips, deprive animals of food and other inappropriate actions during training. The trainers don’t finish until the animals receive bruises and pain. The animals are left with blood from the savage processes used by the trainers. The animals perform the tricks out of horror because if they don’t, they will get abused the trainers.
The unnatural environment, the circus, consists of no wildlife other than their friends, but the animals are isolated from each other most of the time, so they never get to experience their true environment. If the animals play or socialize, or they will get punished. The lack of interaction with each other causes the animals to have stress related illnesses, depression, anxiety and extreme frustration. Also, the unnatural environment can lead to shorter lifespans, mental disorders, and physical disabilities for the animals. The circus animals are forced to live in an unwanted