Help Animals Imprisoned by SeaWorld
Action Alert from All-Creatures.org
FROM
People for the Ethical
Treatment of Animals (PETA)
August 2014
ACTION
You can help the animals imprisoned by SeaWorld today. Please take a
moment to ask SeaWorld to immediately set in place a firm and rapid plan to
release the animals to sanctuaries that can provide them with a more natural
environment.
Sign
an online petition here.
And/or better yet, make direct contact:
The Blackstone Group
Contact information for
29 locations to write, call and/or fax...
INFORMATION / TALKING POINTS
In marine parks and aquariums, dolphins and other sea animals routinely die
prematurely from stress and other captivity-related causes, and SeaWorld has
an abysmal record.
SeaWorld continues to jeopardize the safety of humans and animals alike
despite numerous tragedies—including the deaths of many orcas and the death
of a trainer who was seized by a frustrated orca, thrashed around violently,
and held under water to drown.
The intelligent, social ocean animals kept in the pitifully small tanks at
SeaWorld are denied everything that is natural and important to them. In the
wild, dolphins swim up to 100 miles a day in the open ocean, but captive
dolphins are confined to small tanks in which the reverberations from their
sonar bounce off the walls, driving them insane.
Some of these animals were violently captured and torn away from their homes
in the wild, and many are forced to learn and perform circus-style tricks.
According to whistleblower tips from trainers, withholding food from animals
who refuse to perform is a common training method, and because of the
intense boredom and aggression caused by captivity, orcas gnaw on the metal
gates and concrete corners of the tanks and damage their teeth.
The only thing that people learn from visiting a SeaWorld theme park is how
miserable life is for the animals confined there. Children see mere shadows
of animals, defeated beings who do not engage in natural behavior and cannot
live as nature intended.
Marine parks teach all the wrong lessons: that it is acceptable to imprison
animals; to deprive them of freedom of movement and thought; to forbid them
the chance to establish their natural territory and explore; to breed and
separate them as we, not they, please; and to watch them go insane from
boredom and loneliness.
Thank you for everything you do for animals!
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