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With an open letter, PETA is calling for an end to animals on carousels - they would give the wrong image.
(Symbolic photo) © Michael Bihlmayer/Imago
The animal protection organization Peta wants to ban animals on children's carousels.
This is met with criticism; the Munich SPD does not want to change anything at the Oktoberfest.
Munich - The 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, said Peter Höffken, specialist for animals in the entertainment industry at Peta in Germany.
Media had previously reported that Peta had asked a theme park in the Netherlands to stop using carousels with animals.
Peta wants to ban animal motifs on children's carousels: "They can sit on cars, but not on animals"
Höffken criticized the fact that tourists ride camels in Egypt or elephants in Thailand, for example.
People learned as children that it was okay to treat animals like that, says Höffken.
For example through carousels with animals.
Since education starts with the little ones, it is right to start here.
For example, children could sit in a car or on other objects, but not on animals.
The animal protection organization in the USA had previously called on a manufacturer to stop producing and selling carousels with animal motifs, according to the Peta website.
Peta wants to ban carousel animals: SPD city councilor Klaus Peter Rupp: “We definitely don’t want to change that”
In Munich the demand is met with a lack of understanding.
SPD city councilor Klaus Peter Rupp said on Thursday (February 15): “To be honest, we were very surprised by PETA’s initiative and cannot understand the reasoning at all.
Children's carousels, including those with animal figures, are traditional businesses that greatly enrich our Dulten, the Spring Festival and the Oktoberfest and make them what they are - celebrations for the whole family.
We definitely don’t want to change that and we stand with the showmen here.”