Memorandum submitted by The Great British
Circus
I am deeply concerned about the power of the
RSPCA, as I believe after September they will be afforded the
same right of entry as the police. They have a policy of being
totally against animals in circus and are hell bent on the ethnic
cleansing of classical circus, their animals, animal trainers
and their way of life.
I am worried they will attempt to seize animals
they believe to be in distress as befits their campaign against
circus and I see long and legal arguments as to what constitutes
distress.
Will circus and animals in entertainment cover
racing both horse and dog?
Once we have certain standards will classical
circus once more be allowed back on their rightful sites from
where they are now illegally banned?
Councils who ban government registered wild
animal trainers from their parks must surely be discriminating
in favour of all human shows. Discrimination is illegal. It must
also be a restriction of trade, which is illegal, also contrary
to human rights to ban a legal trade from their public open spaces.
It is no good having welfare laws and more expense
when trainers are treated like lepers and kept outside city limits
with no chance of earning their full potential to implement improvement
for their charges.
Martin Lacey, Managing
Director
August 2004
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