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After 116 years, Barnum’s animal crackers are no longer behind bars and are roaming free! That is until they meet their mushy demise swimming in a child's glass of milk… The change comes because of pressure from PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, who urged the redesign of the box. (See new box design below). The Nabisco product takes its name from the famous but now defunct circus which had its last performance in May of last year. Some animals were said to have been mistreated to perform tricks. So in changing with the times, our animal friends are depicted free to roam in a more natural habitat.
P. T. Barnum of Ringling Brother's Barnum Bailey's Circus has a Denver connection.
He purchased 760 acres west of then Denver city limits in 1878. Legend has it that he bought the land to house his circus animals in the winter but the area was never used for that purpose. The acreage was then platted for residential development and to this day bears his name.
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