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The Maryland Renaissance Festival recently announced that they will continue offering elephant rides to their patrons in 2017 and for the foreseeable future. This flies in the face of all current information that clearly shows how cruel and torturous giving rides is for these gentle, majestic creatures. Hundreds of Renaissance Faires and Festivals across America have traditionally offered the rides as part of their entertainment package dating back to the 1970s, but in recent years, changing taste and perception among consumers, as well as protests from animal rights advocates such as PETA, have led more and more of these family related events to discontinue the outdated practice. The Kansas City Renaissance Festival became the latest, in April of this year, to announce that they would no longer be offering elephant rides. Why then is the Maryland Festival and others like it refusing to abandon this inhumane and wildly anachronistic practice?