PETA Takes The Fun Out of Everything

By Sarah Jacoby

August 12, 2010 9:39AM PDT

PETA protesters

Sept. 2-5 visit to Portland.

Nicole Matthews,

nearly naked in the sun with fake cuts and ketchup-red blood

a symbol of the brutal treatment that protesters say circus animals get.

Virginia Fort

Cirque Du Soleil

Pickle Family Circus

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PETA Takes The Fun Out of Everything

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