SOMETIMES IT'S HARD TO CARE FOR HUMANKIND'S FATE
Brother of German Universal Circus Rentz's owner turns the drowning of an elephant into a clowning show - Crowd in Estonia watch in amusement for forty minutes.
By Tracy W.
I try to keep a rather upbeat tone on this blog. But it's hard. As I surf the web too often I encounter reports that anger me and make me wonder whether the human race deserves to be saved at all.
I try to keep a rather upbeat tone on this blog. But it's hard. As I surf the web too often I encounter reports that anger me and make me wonder whether the human race deserves to be saved at all.
It is not only governments that are behaving badly, but people everywhere, even from countries we regard as "advanced" - that is, mostly free from the pressures that are blamed for human brutality.
Animal abuse is occurring with alarming frequency. For no reason at all, since anyone unable or unwilling to take care of an animal can always take him to an animal shelter or give it away.
I don't cry easily. Sometimes years pass without me shedding a tear. I'm tough. But not when it comes to animal suffering. Last night I read about a circus elephant in Europe who collapsed while bathing in a river, and while it was drowning, the brother of the circus owner put on "a clowning show" repeatedly jumping on the elephant while the crowd watched and laughed - entertained, I suppose - for forty long minutes, as the animal drowned in agony.
I was so distressed by this story that I cried. I could not watch the video, the pictures were heartbreaking enough.
This is not the kind of story that I like to post on my blog, but today I can't get it out of my mind. It makes me angry and it hurts.
DAILY MAIL: Horrifying moment a circus worker DANCED on the body of a dying elephant after it collapsed while bathing in a river. A shocking video was filmed by horrified bystanders in Estonia. (How horrified were they if they did not attempt to assist the elephant?)
The film shows Madi, a 48-year-old Indian elephant slowly drowning. She was on tour as part of Germany's Universal Circus Renz. As Madi - clearly frail and in distress - stumbles onto her side into the water, the zoo owner's brother Rene Renz leaps onto her back and begins clowning around for spectators. (Obviously the crowd were amused!)
Read more here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2347337/Horrifying-moment-circus-worker-dances-body-dying-elephant-collapsed-bathing-river.htmlThe film shows Madi, a 48-year-old Indian elephant slowly drowning. She was on tour as part of Germany's Universal Circus Renz. As Madi - clearly frail and in distress - stumbles onto her side into the water, the zoo owner's brother Rene Renz leaps onto her back and begins clowning around for spectators. (Obviously the crowd were amused!)
Humans have inflicted untold cruelty to animals ever since the first archaic humans emerged, with their rudimentary weapons. The megafauna (mammoths and other large animals) of Europe, Asia and the Americas were all wiped out by humans. Humans continue to inflict devastation on land and oceans, destroying both animals and their environment.
Humans have no useful role to play in the web of life. We appear to be nothing but destructful parasites on this beautiful planet, making it sick instead of honoring it by making it a better place.
No Mozart or Michelangelo is worth what we're doing to our Earth. Even our much vaunted ventures into space have left a trail of garbage on the Moon and in orbit around our planet. If Earth is a living entity, as many of us believe (Gaia theory), she will find a way of healing herself of the human presence someday, somehow.
Humans have no useful role to play in the web of life. We appear to be nothing but destructful parasites on this beautiful planet, making it sick instead of honoring it by making it a better place.
No Mozart or Michelangelo is worth what we're doing to our Earth. Even our much vaunted ventures into space have left a trail of garbage on the Moon and in orbit around our planet. If Earth is a living entity, as many of us believe (Gaia theory), she will find a way of healing herself of the human presence someday, somehow.
More on this blog:
Do Humans have a Purpose, or are they Nature's Mistake? - http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2013/03/science-questions-do-humans-have.html
Elephants face extinction in ten years unless ivory trade is banned -
Ivory buyers, shame on you!
PLEASE - teach your children to be kind to all animals, not just the cute ones, and do what you can to help stop the use of animals in circuses, movies, commercials and other forms of entertainment. What you don't see is the extreme cruelty with which these enslaved animals are often treated - in spite of reassurances to the contrary. And also please demand tougher sentences for all animal abusers.
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