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Petition to Help Stop Ringling Bros. Expansion on Coney Island
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      • Taconic Investments (CO-Founder and Co-CEO Charles R. Bendit)
      • Taconic Investments (CO-Founder and Co-CEO Paul E. Pariser)
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    holmen, WI
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Help Stop Ringling Bros. Expansion on Coney Island



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New York City officials recently announced that the notorious elephant abusers at Ringling Bros. Circus will be at Coney Island for several months this summer thanks to a land donation from Taconic Investments. PETA has contacted the city and Taconic to let them know of Ringling's lengthy history of animal abuse and numerous eyewitness accounts of abuse from previous Ringling employees, but they refuse to sever ties with the animal-abusing act.

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Help Stop Ringling Bros. Expansion on Coney Island

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<p>New York City officials recently announced that the notorious elephant abusers at Ringling Bros. Circus will be at Coney Island for several months this summer thanks to a land donation from Taconic Investments. PETA has contacted the city and Taconic to let them know of Ringling's lengthy history of animal abuse and numerous eyewitness accounts of abuse from previous Ringling employees, but they refuse to sever ties with the animal-abusing act.</p>




<p>I am shocked and disheartened to see that the city will permit Ringling Bros. to set up a circus this summer on Coney Island. By allowing these performances, Taconic Investment Partners and the city are endorsing cruelty to animals.</p>




<p>The circus rips baby elephants away from their mothers and forces them into a life of pain, humiliation, and loneliness. Animals used in the circus are beaten with bullhooks, whipped, and shocked with electric prods in order to force them to perform physically painful and confusing tricks. Animals are denied the fulfillment of all their natural instincts.</p>




<p>I won't visit Coney Island as long as it's the home of animal abusers, and I will urge my friends and family to do the same. Please let me know immediately that you will help prevent a lifetime of suffering for animals in circuses by cancelling plans to host Ringling for the summer.</p>




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