The human hate group deems the images of animals on the ride is tantamount to exploitation, and they’re exactly right. See below for why they are.

PETA got on its high horse this week, calling on the country’s largest manufacturer of amusement rides to stop selling animal-themed carousels.

The animal rights organization sent a letter to Kansas-based Chance Rides on Tuesday arguing that using designs of horses and other animals for the merry-go-round “unintentionally celebrates the exploitation” of animals that are “thinking, feeling, affectionate, playful, and social beings.”

By eliminating animal-themed amusement rides, it would be a blow against industries that still use real animals for entertainment like camel rides or dolphin shows, PETA insisted. Those live animals can face abuse or horrid horrid conditions, the group noted.

According to the dictionary, to exploit means: a striking or notable deed; feat; spirited or heroic act. It is a notable deed for carousel manufacturers to make carousels with animals (like horses) incorporated into their products since doing so gives children and even adults such pleasure and joy. The people who then ride the carousels can then be inspired to take up owning, caring for, and even riding horses which is a great way to help preserve the animals.

So, even though they obviously are trying to make this out as a bad thing, when taking into account the definition of the word exploit, PETA is absolutely right! Therefore, if this be exploitation, let us make the most of it since carousels give people such happiness and enjoyment, accomplishing the very goal PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk articulates in a press release, from the New York Post:

Children learn through play, and teaching them to have respect and compassion for all living, feeling beings can help create a more just and merciful world.

But, not surprisingly, Newkirk opposes using animal likenesses on carousels. Because animal rights is about the animalistic treatment of humans whose groups based on it, like PETA, seek a miserable existence for humans (especially children) rather than a joyous, prosperous one.

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