In the News A Whale Of A Business

Because animals can't speak for themselves, people who profit from them should not be allowed to speak on their behalf.

doesn't pepsico own seaworld? time to start boycotting whoever the parent company is....

Whales should be left ALONE. I don't feel badly if people who contribute to this atrocity get killed. You get back what you give...

I agree with previous comments on Orcas and other sea mammals in parks. Live and let live! How would you like to be captured, forced trained to "jump" on command. For applause and fame? Are you kidding...it's not in their "vocabulary"!

While the death of the trainer at Sea World was a tragic event ..it is not strictly by accident that these things happen, and will unfortunately continue to happen. Orcinas Orca have been at the top of the oceanic food chain for perhaps millions of years. Human fascination with their power and their grace should be confined to observing them in their natural habitat, not in an amusement park.

Steve

They should also ban all pets, nascar racing, the space program, automobiles, football, cigarettes, junk food, air travel, tall buildings, oranges, bathtubs, hospitals, all zoos, all circuses, furnature, houses, suburbia, sprawl, and everything else that humans have ever done where there has ever been an accident where somebody made a mistake and some animal died. And when they get done with that they can ban all preditors. And when they get done with that they can ban all parasites. And when they get done with that they can just get it over with and ban all life on the planet.

It seems that everybody is surprised that a Killer Whale killed a trainer. This animals are highly intelligent and as humans they get upset or they can have a "bad day". Tilki was a ticking bomb.He killed before either by accident or on purpose but that is not the issue. The issue is that these animals are the #1 predator of the ocean, The have been seen killed even white sharks.
High intelligence and predation makes the orcas dangerous that is why they belong to the wild.

Such a waste of God's creation, for the love of money. Just another incident of man's greed for the almighty dollar.

Keeping any wild animal captive is cruel and inhumane. Captivity has nothing to offer a wild animal and there is no possible way to duplicate a wild environment.

Moreover, there is no educational value in observing a captive wild animal. Whether dolphin, whale, lemur, lion, reptile, or bear...all exhibit aberrant behaviors due to the stress and diseases brought on by captivity that greatly reduce their life spans.

The backgrounds of spokesmen touting the benefits of captivity, like the widely acclaimed Jack Hanna, should be disclosed before they are allowed to speak. Like Jack, many have great conflicts of interest because, like Jack, they have gained their fortunes and fame from the business of selling, buying, and displaying exotic animals. And, sadly, somewhere on their roads to fame and fortune, many animals have died and innocent people have been injured or killed.

We have a kind of catch-22 with captive animals. How many of you would even know what an Orca
(killer whale *) is if not for the popularity of Sea World? As the short take states we hardly knew anything about them as wildlife before Ted Griffin took an interest in them.

Without condoning what animal parks do in regards to capture and display, they do play a positive role in educating us to their existence and value in our ecosystem. There is also a lesson in learning that Griffin's whale died due to human pollution in Puget sound.

What other animals do we share this world in utter ignorance deserve our attention? For we need to learn to share, conserve and manage this planet and it's treasures instead of looking at everything that isn't human as a resource wasting about waiting for us to exploit.

It's time for the Human race to grow up and stop acting like a spoiled child. Can we do it?

*(killer whale is a name from whalers who noted that the Orcas hunted and killed baleen whales for their appetizing tongues and followed them for the leftover oil filled carcasses to light our lanterns)