Don’t patronize places that use animals for entertainment

AS the Philippines begins to open again and we look forward to a new year, now is the time to remind everyone that having fun should never include harming or exploiting animals.

There's growing recognition that keeping animals confined to cramped cages for the public's amusement is ethically indefensible. At zoos, animals are in lockdown for life and have no choice concerning their food, their mates or who they live with. If you think quarantine has been hard on humans, imagine how animals like Trixie, a lonely orangutan suffering at the Avilon Zoo, must feel. She's isolated there in a concrete cell.