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Yellowstone Bear World is a bear-breeding vacationer lure that tears weak, weeks-old cubs away from their moms and exploits them in public encounters. These bears would naturally stick with and be taught from their moms for the primary two years of their lives, so depriving them of this bond for industrial acquire is a type of speciesism—a human-supremacist worldview. The roadside zoo additionally ships bears to different shady exhibitors throughout the nation. Since 2012, it has despatched 88 bears, together with 4 cubs in 2022, to Gregg Woody, an animal dealer identified to have despatched dozens of bears to the slaughterhouse.

A PETA undercover investigation has revealed simply how little regard Yellowstone Bear World has for the animals there. A cub was denied prescribed ache remedy for his fractured leg, and a supervisor threatened to throw one other cub throughout the room and rip out her tooth “one after the other.” Employees apparently didn’t contact a veterinarian for an older bear who was “dragging her physique … throughout the street” or for a bear who had “actually peeled the pores and skin off of his again.”

Corporations at the moment are seeing that supporting Yellowstone Bear World is dangerous enterprise. A number of, corresponding to AARP, AAA Membership Alliance, Purely Journey, and Roadside America, have lower ties with the power, however others are nonetheless callously selling it and disregarding the animals’ struggling.

Please urge Yellowstone Bear World’s remaining promoters to not help the roadside zoo sooner or later.