Animal protection organization Peta criticizes carousels with animals

Animal protection organization Peta has criticized the use of animals in carousels. Even if they aren’t real. It is a problem that animals are used for entertainment, says Peter Höffken, animal entertainment industry specialist at Peta in Germany.

The newspaper ‘Bild’ previously reported that Peta had asked an amusement park in the Netherlands to stop using animal carousels.

Höffken criticized the fact that tourists in Egypt, for example, ride camels or in Thailand on elephants. People learned as children that it was okay to treat animals this way, Höffken says. For example, via carousels with animals. Since education starts with the little ones, it is good to start here. For example, children can sit in a car or on other objects, but not on animals.

The US animal protection organization had previously called on a manufacturer to stop producing and selling carousels with animal motifs, according to the website Peta. (sda/dpa)