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Regarding last week’s cover story “Start Your Engines,” I hope that this supposed Jewish legacy stops with the current generation of Felds. Feld Entertainment embodies the opposite of what I consider to be Jewish values.
Ringling Bros. was recently fined $270,000 — the largest such fine ever imposed — by the USDA for its treatment of its elephants and other animals. In 2009, a lawsuit over Feld’s treatment of its elephants, brought by animal welfare organizations including the ASPCA, was tried in federal court in Washington. I attended much of the trial and heard Kenneth Feld and a number of his employees testify under oath to the abuse to which they subject their elephants. You can learn more in an excellent November/December 2011 “Mother Jones” magazine article titled “The Cruelest Show On Earth,” which is on that publication’s website.
Amy Mayers
Washington, D.C.
