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The controversial practice of circus animal acts is legal in the US. [62] In 2015 Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus announced it will phase out its use of elephants by 2018, [63] but ended up shutting down in 2017. In May 2022, the circus announced it would resume touring in 2023 without the use of animals.
Washington lawmakers are looking to pass a bill that would prohibit using big cats, bears and other wild animals in traveling circus acts in the state. Senate Bill 5065 would ban animals like ...
A 14-year litigation against the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus came to an end in 2014 when The Humane Society of the United States and a number of other animal rights groups paid a $16 million settlement to Feld Entertainment; however, the circus closed in May 2017 after a 146-year run when it experienced a steep decline in ticket ...
Year(s) Abuhadba Circo Internacional [1] Bolivia Adam Forepaugh: United States of America Merged 1870s–1900 Aerialize Sydney Aerial Theatre [2] Australia Active 1999–present Aesthetic International Circus [3] China Active 2023-present Al G. Barnes Circus: United States of America Defunct 1895–1938 Albert & Friends Instant Circus [4] [5 ...
What Amendment 7 reveals is that insiders believe if their governing ideas had to compete on a level playing field with a large cross section of Missouri voters, those ideas would lose. Proponents ...
In 2011, the Dollarhite family of Nixa, Missouri, were fined $90,643 for selling several thousand dollars worth of rabbits without a license, which is required of people selling more than $500 worth of rabbits sold as pets. The USDA has increased enforcement of the law in recent years, targeting magicians who perform magic tricks with rabbits. [25]
An annual report from the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence gave Missouri an overall failing grade, ranking it 48th in the nation for the strength of its gun laws last year. The report ...
On October 22, 1943, German-American circus performer Aloysius Peters, billed as "The Great Peters" and "The Man With the Iron Neck", was killed when his signature stunt went wrong at the Fireman's Wild West Rodeo and Thrill Circus in St. Louis, Missouri. Peters' act involved leaping from a trapeze bar with a noose around his neck made from an ...