article_snippet: It's a disgusting practice and there's no reason that It should continue simply because it's seen as tradition', said Leonora Esquivel, a leader of the AnimaNaturalis animal rights organisation, in a telephone interview with the MailOnline.
article_snippet: Leonora's organisation, which works closely with Mexico's  Ecologist Green Party, is currently petitioning the government to put an end to animal cruelty in the country.
article_snippet: In December of last year animal rights activists achieved a nationwide ban on the use of wild animals in circuses, imposing fines of up to £180,000 on organisations which cannot prove the domestic origins of any animals which are used in animal rights activists performances.
article_snippet: the government is currently engaged in the struggle to find homes for more than 2,000 repossessed tigers, lions, elephants and other such animals which have been freed as a result of the law.
highlights_snippet: Leader of animal rights organisation has branded Leader of animal rights organisation a 'disgusting practice'
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