From PETA's coloring book for kids, which it wants handed out at Fort Worth libraries PETA Brings Its Fight Against "The Greatest Show On Earth" To Cowtown Library
By Daniel Rodrigue, Monday, Jun. 14 2010
At 10:30 this morning, the Riverside Branch of the Fort Worth Library played host to Slappy and Monday -- two clowns from Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus who treated some 43 kids to Reading with Ringling Bros. While one librarian who overheard the two clowns reading during this morning's story time told Unfair Park that the show "sounded really cute," People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is crying foul, insisting that the program "condones animal abuse" at circuses.
Last week, the Norfolk, Virginia-based animal rights group sent Fort Worth Library's program coordinator Jeff Rodriguez a letter urging that the library cancel the program because it "violates the library's own policy against co-sponsoring programs with for-profit entities." To which the library is saying: Ringling is not "co-sponsoring" the event, and the special "circus-themed story time" is just one of the library's many ongoing summer reading programs that "encourages children not only to read, but also to learn, discover and dream."
To which PETA's saying: Nuh-unh, the circus is totally co-sponsoring the program! Especially, PETA maintains, because the Ringling folks will be passing out Ringling-branded goodies, as well as tickets to the circus when it stops by the Fort Worth Convention Center in August.read more at: http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2010/06/peta_brings_its_fight_against.php
Last week, the Norfolk, Virginia-based animal rights group sent Fort Worth Library's program coordinator Jeff Rodriguez a letter urging that the library cancel the program because it "violates the library's own policy against co-sponsoring programs with for-profit entities." To which the library is saying: Ringling is not "co-sponsoring" the event, and the special "circus-themed story time" is just one of the library's many ongoing summer reading programs that "encourages children not only to read, but also to learn, discover and dream."
To which PETA's saying: Nuh-unh, the circus is totally co-sponsoring the program! Especially, PETA maintains, because the Ringling folks will be passing out Ringling-branded goodies, as well as tickets to the circus when it stops by the Fort Worth Convention Center in August.read more at: http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2010/06/peta_brings_its_fight_against.php
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