Courtesy of PETA
A bunch of PETA supporters rally in opposition to SeaWorld’s alleged mistreatment of aquatic mammals.
As SeaWorld prepares to have a good time its sixtieth anniversary this weekend at its San Antonio park, a bunch of animal rights activists is able to present counter-programming highlighting what it calls “60 years of distress” the amusement firm created for aquatic mammals.
A pod of PETA supporters plans to protest exterior the gates of SeaWorld San Antonio beginning at 10 a.m. Saturday, accusing the park of abuse in opposition to dolphins and orcas.
SeaWorld San Antonio officers had been unavailable for remark Friday afternoon.
PETA maintains in a press launch that greater than 40 orcas and 500 different aquatic mammals, together with dolphins, have died prematurely in SeaWorld’s tanks. PETA additionally accuses SeaWorld of permitting dolphins to be sexually abused throughout its breeding packages.
“Sixty years of imprisoning dolphins, orcas, and different marine mammals in cramped concrete tanks and depriving them of every thing that is pure and necessary to them is a trigger for disgrace, not celebration,” PETA Govt Vice President Tracy Reiman mentioned in an announcement. “PETA urges everybody to shun this exploitative hellhole till it lastly releases these long-suffering animals to seaside sanctuaries.”
One dolphin that allegedly died prematurely at SeaWorld San Antonio was Helen, a disabled cetacean who handed away in 2022, lower than a 12 months after being moved to the Alamo Metropolis. Helen was solely 33 years outdated on the time of her loss of life, despite the fact that the typical lifespan of white-sided dolphins is 40.
SeaWorld San Antonio mentioned on the time that they’d conduct an post-mortem. Nevertheless, the outcomes of that post-mortem have but to be publicly launched.
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