The Animal Question

Not flying monkeys but gorillas

Bray says he was driving across the bridge Thursday afternoon when a huge stuffed brown stuffed animal flew off the truck in front of him. Bray says it flew up 50 feet and came down in the middle of the road.

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This is from a while back but bears mention here. Someone was transporting a stuffed gorilla in the back of his truck in Duluth, Minnesota, but didn't tie down the load.

Jokes and bad puns aside, think about the way you react to an animal that has been 'stuffed' by a taxidermist, vs. the way you'd react to a human body treated the same way. I once had a friend who used to pick up roadkill from the side of the road and take the bodies and bury them, out of respect. I saw a dead deer on the roadside yesterday and felt awful for it ... but I didn't stop or feel compelled to bury it. Of course, a human body on the roadside would have elicited an altogether different reaction from me.

St. Louis - Daily RFT - Powers-that-be Prohibit PETA Protest Pachyderm

​PETA does not clown around about hatin' on circuses. Earlier this year, they did an uncover investigation on Ringling Brothers and posted some elephant-beating footage on the aptly named Web site, ringlingbrothersbeatsanimals.com.

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In St. Louis, PETA is denied the right to set up a protest statue to call attention to what they claim is animal abuse on the part of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey.

My thought on this is: Let PETA put up the statue. It's the organization's right. The public can decide whether or not to attend the circus, based on the available evidence.

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