Today, a volunteer at the Barry R. Kirshner Wildlife Foundation<\/a> had to be hospitalized as the result of injuries inflicted by a leopard in the animal\u2019s enclosure. Below, please find a statement from PETA Foundation Associate Director of Captive Animal Law Enforcement Debbie Metzler:<\/p>\n This disaster shows exactly why no reputable animal-care facility would ever let its volunteers enter an enclosure with a big cat. PETA hopes the public will now see this so-called \u201cwildlife foundation\u201d for the sham sanctuary that it is\u2014an outfit with a history of Tiger King<\/em>\u2013style cub petting, a previous penalty for endangering the public<\/a>, and a volunteer\u2019s blood on its hands.<\/p>\n PETA\u2014whose motto reads, in part, that \u201canimals are not ours to use for entertainment\u201d\u2014opposes speciesism, which is a human-supremacist worldview. Please let me know if you have any questions or if there\u2019s any further information that I can provide.<\/p>\n #<\/p>\n The post PETA Statement: Leopard Attack Is No Surprise<\/a> appeared first on PETA<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n This post was originally published on Blog \u2013 PETA<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today, a volunteer at the Barry R. Kirshner Wildlife Foundation had to be hospitalized as the result of injuries inflicted by a leopard in the animal\u2019s enclosure. Below, please find a statement from PETA Foundation Associate Director of Captive Animal Law Enforcement Debbie Metzler: This disaster shows exactly why no reputable animal-care facility would ever… Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n The post PETA Statement: Leopard Attack Is No Surprise<\/a> appeared first on PETA<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2304,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7721],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49299"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2304"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49300,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49299\/revisions\/49300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}