The Ethical Disconnect of the Circus: Humanity's Acceptance of Performing Elephants - Author's Note Added 2 Feb 2011

In America, People grow up attending circuses and most people love them. The purpose of this article is to provide information about elephants and convince current circus attendees and people with fond memories of childhood circuses not to attend animal circuses in the future. This is not an easy task. I have been writing on various issues of Animal Rights (AR) and other animal-centric subjects for some time now and the plight of the elephant is one very dear to me. It is true that all performing animals suffer, but these great beasts seems to suffer more and it is my vain hope that this small article will in someway increase awareness about them and help them, whom I love so much.