The Circus, and Whistleblower Tom Rider, Come to Town; Former Circus Employee Speaks Out Against Animal Cruelty

, U.S. Newswire

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus is charged with abusing endangered Asian elephants, and former employee Tom Rider has new videotape evidence -- obtained from Ringling Bros. itself -- to prove his case. Rider, who quit the circus in 1999 to speak out against its cruelty, is protesting the circus's Feb. 17 opening in Atlanta. Some of the gruesome footage shows the birth of Riccardo, an elephant who died at the age of 8-months last August, after he fractured both hind legs when he fell of...

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