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Additionally as you saw there is infliction from weapons on the tigers and the camels and the zebras. As far as Public Safety i have witnessed san jose zebras breaking free and camels breaking loose and i want to say as far as education goes these circus tricks dont teach us anything about who the animals truly are. They perpetuate a gross and false image about who the animals are and doesnt teach us about them and i applaud you for introducing this legislation. Thank you very much. My name is terry mad lock and born and raised in San Francisco. I spent my whole life in eric mars district. Im ...

Safety and Neighborhood Services committee of the San Francisco board of supervisors. My name is eric mar. Im the chair of the committee. To my left is supervisor Julie Christensen and to my right is Supervisor Scott Wiener and katy tang. Our clerk is mr. Derek evans. Could you give us the announcements. Thank you mr. Chair. Please silent all cell phones and electronic devices. Speaker cards and files should be splitted to the clerk and items will be on the april 14 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you. We have three important hearings on the agenda today so its going...

Issues concerning Animal Welfare i guess. I was moved to come here to speak today because i am in full support of what is being proposed. I am just surprised to me this is my personal opinion that public entertainment and amusement reads to me zoos which i was trying to many years ago become just a rescue zoo but the powers that be didnt happen, but in my mind on a lesser degree not cruelty but ongoing policy of entertainment and amusement is what zoos are at least our zoo is about and again thats a side line but i do fully support this legislation and i am glad that you are proposing it. Than...

Good afternoon. My name is daffy lang and a lifelong San Francisco resident and representing the animal Legal Defense fund. I want to thank supervisor tang, wiener and yee for sponsoring the legislation. When it comes to handles these animals for entertainment abuse is the rule, not the exception. Handlers embed the sharp hook into the soft tissue behind elephant ears and other sensitive spots and under the chins and tigers are whipped and beaten and man are in tiny cages and this ordinance is in the best interest of Public Safety and animals that are subjected to abuse are prone to unpredicta...

Different places around california are only required to have extremely small spaces for their animals to live, up to 3,000 square feet for a tiger for the entire life. 300 square feet for the tiger to life and many things the people dont see when the tiger comes for a performance. The opposition fights to keep the standards so low and the public that supports that thing is much more aware of what happens. The animal trade is another disgusting part of the wild animal business, not just the ones that come to the city, but the ones that are bought, sold and traded that are considered surplus, so...