For immediate release:
Jul 12, 2021
Contact:
Megan Wiltsie 202-483-7382
Lansing, Michigan. In the middle of summer break season, PETA placed a huge billboard on US Route 127 warning people that vulnerable cubs are hurt when forced to do photo shoots and public clashes at Oswald Bear Ranch, an infamous roadside zoo in the Upper Peninsula. The billboard encourages drivers to avoid this place at all costs.
“Oswald Bear Ranch makes money from unsuspecting, well-meaning tourists, and if this frightened bear could speak, she would ask them to stay away,” says Debbie Metzler, deputy director of animal law enforcement at PETA. “PETA asks everyone with a heart to keep driving past this abusive operation.”
Oswald’s cubs were seen walking, screaming, and biting cages in apparent malaise, and a roadside zoo was named for physically abusing a cub, allowing the cub to injure a guest and endangering the children by allowing them to hand feed the cubs. … Bears there, too, died in terrible ways: one was shot after escaping from the enclosure, another from a deadly “drug overdose”, and some were even stabbed to death.
PETA, whose motto is in part that “the animals are not ours to be used for entertainment” – opposes arrogance, a worldview focused on human superiority. For more information please visit PETA.org or subscribe to the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram…
The billboard is located on the highway, half a mile north of Lake Lansing Road.