OT: Watching Blackfish right now

[ProteinSnob]

I've never been to Seaworld and now have zero desire to EVER go!

I kept hearing about this documentary and now it's sucked me in.

Wow.

 

[Taterweight]

Yeah that was an incredible documentary...no real winners there...evil SeaWorld....serial killer Tilacum.

 

[ProteinSnob]

Right?!

There was a really strong trend a while back on BabyCenter to have dolphin-assisted births. Minimal intervention- even from midwives. Unfortunately I am not kidding, and DH has not stopped snickering since I told him this (farm boy).

I love animals and everything, but have never really felt comfortable with places like SeaWorld. Some sort of refuge for the hurt and sickly is fine, but why do humans insist on forcing animals to act like humans? They are animals.

 

[Paula]

I love documentaries and want to see this one badly. Read a book on the orcas in captivity situation and all I can say is no wonder they just lose it. Animals just don't belong contained for human entertainment.

 

[ProteinSnob]

If you get CNN, @Paula , it's been playing all night.

 

[JackieOnLine]

it was fantastic (well made, I mean, but heartbreaking) - have you seen interviews with the director? SeaWorld would love it if she was a PETA member or something but, no, she is just a very good documentary maker who got interested in WHY Dawn was killed. She used to take her kids to SW!

it kills me when I read comments (on facebook, for example) and some people still defend Seaworld as "educational" - the film makes it clear they are no friend of the Orcas, that's for sure.

I hope the tide continues to turn against them. they torture whales for money, bottom line.

 

[JackieOnLine]

There was a really strong trend a while back on BabyCenter to have dolphin-assisted births. Minimal intervention- even from midwives.

holy cow!

I read somewhere that some kind of sea mammal - I think it was dolphins? - were actually known to rape.

it's fascinating that we don't have to look off-planet for intelligent life besides our own. and we constantly underestimate how complex that life is.

 

[JackieOnLine]

another Orca story

....within the next couple weeks and as soon as Monday, a Dutch High Court will issue its decision on the future of Morgan, the lost and sickly young female killer whale who was picked up off the coast of the Netherlands in 2010. After being nursed back to health by Dolfinarium Harderwijk, Morgan was shipped off -- following a decision by the Dutch government -- to Loro Parque in the Canary Islands in late 2011.

Seaworld has decided it now owns her and that captivity is better for her