April 2014
Last year, the Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously to support a bullhook ban after seeing PETA’s undercover footage and photos of baby elephant training. Now the language of the new law has been drafted and formally adopted. The ban goes into effect in January 2017. This delay is to give circuses time to either change the way they handle elephants or to remove them from their shows.
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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 Newkirk, PETA Founder and co-author of Animalkind
