This week, PETA stepped up its game and called on the country’s largest amusement park manufacturer to stop selling animal-themed merry-go-rounds.
Animal rights groups sent a letter to Kansas-based Chance Rides on Tuesday, saying that using designs of horses and other animals on merry-go-rounds is “thinking, feeling, loving, playful, and socially responsible.” Existence.”
Eliminating animal-themed amusement park rides would be a blow to an industry that still uses real animals for entertainment such as camel rides and dolphin shows. PETA claimed. These live animals can face abuse and dire conditions, the research group noted.
PETA suggested to Chance Ride CEO and President Aaron Landrum that his company only use objects such as cars, unicycles, and rockets, or designs such as shooting stars, rainbows, and brooms.
In a letter, PETA President Ingrid Newkirk said, “All animals are thinking, feeling, loving, playful, and sociable beings, and if allowed to be kept in captivity (which is rare), they can produce offspring. “We form strong bonds.” “They yearn for freedom from oppression.
“The animal-themed merry-go-round set suggests that these sentient beings are not individuals with the same ability to experience fear, pain, joy, and love as we do, but simply for our entertainment. It reinforces the concept that we are here for.”
Newkirk noted that other companies are also taking a stand against the use of animals in their products.
After PETA raised concerns in 2018, Nabisco replaced the caged animal design with one free-roaming on a box of Barnum’s Animal Crackers, she said.
The following year, Trader Joe’s changed the design of some of its products and no longer featured elephants performing tricks.
Chance Rides, which operates out of Wichita, boasts a number of merry-go-rounds comprised primarily of “fantasy horses.”
The Post reached out to the company for comment late Wednesday.
“Children learn through play, and teaching them respect and compassion for all living things and sentient beings helps create a more just and compassionate world,” Newkirk said in a press statement. mentioned in.
“PETA urges Chance Rides and all other carousel manufacturers to put the brakes on classic animal-themed rides and embrace designs that capture children’s imaginations and unleash human talent. I am.”
