Animal rights groups protested outside Madison Square Garden Tuesday, saying conditions for circus animals are inhumane. The rally’s organizers are calling on the City Council to pass a bill banning the use of “wild and exotic animals” for “public amusement.” The legislation has 22 sponsors. “I think it’s an entire misrepresentation of the truth,” said the show’s producer, Nicole Feld, whose family has owned the Ringling Bros. Circus for three generations. “Our animals are absolutely precious to us and are part of the Ringling Brothers/Barnum and Bailey family.”
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Benjamin Sarlin
New York Sun