I love circuses. I recently watched Water for Elephants which I thought was a beautifully made film and the visuals of the circus was just beautiful. However, it made me think about the use of animals in the circus. I think circuses are great and their entertainment is inventive and exciting. With or without animals I love the theme, atmosphere and style of circus'. However it is sometimes controversial to say that you like to watch a circus with animals. People often believe that circus' are cruel to animals, and I'm definitely not saying that some of them definitely aren't, and many of them were as there is definite evidence to prove this, but I read this piece yesterday that shone a new light. in 2007 a different working group under the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs , having reviewed information from experts representing both the circus industry and animal welfare, found an absence of "scientific evidence sufficient to demonstrate ...