Interviewed by the Hartford Courant

The animal welfare community celebrated a victory recently when the Hartford Yard Goats, a one-year-old Minor League Baseball team, cancelled an upcoming monkey rodeo performance and agreed to not feature rodeos in the future.

The week prior, I (on behalf of the North American Primate Sanctuary Alliance) had written to the team to inform them of the inherent harms of monkey rodeos, and to ask for such a commitment. As a former Connecticut resident, I was heartened to hear of the team's quick response and compassionate choice.

The Hartford Courant spoke with me about the rodeos and the Yard Goats' decision. I was pleased to have quite a bit of information quoted in the article, and am so grateful that the right message is being spread about primate exploitation.

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