Animal Rights Activists Disrupt U.S. Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney’s Fundraiser
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Animal rights activists staged a protest both inside and outside of U.S. Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney’s campaign fundraiser over her ongoing refusal to call off her $50 million plan to lease pandas from China and put them on display in New York City.
“Pandas are wild animals who exist for their own purposes,” said Edita Birnkrant, Executive Director of the animal rights group NYCLASS. “They should live freely in the bamboo forests of China, not in a display case in Manhattan.”
Animal rights activists protest U.S. Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney over her $50M plan to display pandas in Manhattan
In addition to opposing animal captivity for human entertainment, the activists argue that the Chinese breeding facility from which the pandas will be leased are merely money-making panda mills and that renting pandas fuels the market for captive pandas while doing nothing to conserve pandas in their natural habitat.
Caretakers at the Chengdu panda breeding facility, the panda mill from which Carolyn Maloney plans to lease pandas, were caught on camera physically abusing panda cubs.
In February 2017, Congresswomen Maloney and her two billionaire backers, John Catsimatidis and Maurice Greenberg, held a “Black & White Panda Ball” at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel to raise money for the project, which is estimated to cost $50 million. The gala raised approximately $500,000. Her charity, The Pandas are Coming to NYC, continues to raise money.
Animal rights activists in NYC say that displaying wild pandas in an enclosure in Manhattan would be inhumane
In June, 2017, the NYC Council voted to pass a bill to ban the use of exotic animals in performances following an 11 year campaign waged by animal rights activists and supportive lawmakers. Lawyers are reviewing the language in this bill to see if and how it would affect the display of pandas in an exhibit akin to a roadside zoo.
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China has a terrible record in regards to any humane treatment of animals. Here is where animals are skinned alive on fur farms, and tortured and cooked alive in the dog and cat meat trade. Other atrocities include “milking” bears for their bile to make medicines and potions. Is Carolyn Maloney taking a page out of this playbook? Is she so shallow that she thinks that animals are just for humans to use for their amusement?
There are hardly any Pandas left in the wild. China churns them out to make money, they don’t live a natural life, they are purely to make money. If America starts ‘leasing Pandas’ you will condoning keeping wild animals as exhibits. America should be at the forefront of animal welfare. They should not be getting any animals from such a cruel country. You are normalising animals in malls. It is WRONG!