For example, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus was slapped with the largest penalty
of its kind in U.S. history for abusing
elephants and lions after PETA urged the U.S. Department
of Agriculture to take action against Ringling and presented indisputable evidence
of the circus's animal abuse, including beatings, the death
of a lion, lame
elephants forced to perform despite chronic pain, and a
baby elephant who died during a training routine.