For Speedy Launch:
April 6, 2023
Contact:
David Perle 202-483-7382
Wellsville, Utah – Carrying indicators that learn, “Child Animals Belong With Their Moms,” this Saturday supporters of PETA and the Utah Animal Rights Coalition will rally exterior a photograph op occasion on the American West Heritage Middle, the place strangers will crowd and overwhelm cubs and different child animals from Yellowstone Bear World (YBW). The motion comes on the heels of the feds’ current determination to high quality YBW over $6,000 following a PETA grievance and the group’s undercover investigation displaying how the ability prematurely separates moms from their infants.
“Because of merciless shows like these, harassed bear cubs make it onto TikTok, however they by no means make it again to their moms,” says PETA Basis Director of Captive Animal Welfare Debbie Metzler. “PETA is asking on the American West Heritage Middle and Yellowstone Bear World to cease treating delicate child animals like props.”
PETA’s investigation discovered {that a} cub with a damaged leg was denied prescribed therapy; an irate supervisor threatened to throw a cub throughout the room; that cubs bit, scratched, and bruised employees; and that cubs disadvantaged of the chance to nurse desperately tried to suckle from employees’ chins and arms. YBW makes use of cubs in bottle-feeding encounters once they’re almost 5 months previous, which was towards Idaho regulation—till YBW lobbied for the removing of state oversight so it may proceed this exploitation with out accountability, endangering Idahoans and animals.
The place: Outdoors the American West Heritage Middle, 4025 S. Freeway 89–91 (close to the intersection of 3000 W. and Freeway 89), Wellsville
When: Saturday, April 8, 12 midday
PETA—whose motto reads, partly, that “animals will not be ours to make use of for leisure”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview.
For extra info, please go to PETA.org, hearken to The PETA Podcast, or comply with the group on Twitter, Fb, or Instagram.
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