Lol I try to avoid those commercials too, but I’ve definitely noticed some I have such an aversion to the HSUS. If they want to be lobbying organization, that’s fine. I just have a problem with how they pretend to be some overarching organization that helps local humane societies. Less than one percent of their budget…

The Arms of an Angel commercial is for the ASPCA. The Humane Society of the United States (which is pretty much a just lobbying organization) has basically ripped off those commercials with similar imagery and music. All the ASPCA commercial is trying to do is to get people to donate money to help animals, so the…

There is an orca sea pen already built off of the coast of Washington State, funded by charity and built specifically for Lolita in Miami. However, it is large enough to hold several whales at a time, they have designed a program to “train” the whales to feed in the wild and the station will be maintained at all times…

Oh god. I watched it last year and am now reliving the shock/horror/utter sadness that came with it. I so hope that these lawsuits come to something and things get better for the orcas :(

I’ve never seen one! My husband did, knew how I’d react, and has been jumping on the remote for years to protect me. :)

They could focus more on being an aquarium, a lot of aquariums have conservation programs for propagating threatened wild coral samples in captivity. Or displays of neat fish that people don’t really get to see in the wild, breed-and-release programs for wild fish that are currently threatened, being able to observe…

“...for those of us who don’t want to live in a world where a species whose breathtaking intellectual capacity we are only beginning to understand are abused and driven insane on behalf of the hot dog-wielding masses..”

It’s so heart breaking. Also, it's horrible but that's really similar to what happens to mama cows in the dairy industry. They wail like that for their stolen calf.

I heard that same interview. My favorite part was that the managers stated that Sea World advances our scientific understanding of Orcas. It’s unbelievable that they are still implying that they are a research facility or that they have any ties to research facilities. It’s just a strait out lie. The trainers have…

There is nothing NOTHING SeaWorld can possibly say to argue these claims. It's straight up facts. Wait.

The Cove is far sadder, and overall the better documentary.

I hope these work. I heard an interview on NPR from one of the former trainers who was heavily involved in Black Fish. They also then interviewed Sea World managers. It's absurd how the current mouth pieces try to totally deny what these trainers are saying, yet, what is in it for them? The former trainers aren't…

Okay but like... Then you have other sad animals filling the space of the sad orcas. Dolphins and belugas and sea lions and walruses don’t do much better than Orcas in these parks, relegating Sea World’s success post orca to these other animals will likely make their existence more miserable than it already is. The…

While many zoological institutions do great work in both education and species preservation, Seaworld has always struck me as just an old fashioned freakshow, at best perhaps and old fashioned circus. I will not shed a single tear when it inevitably closes its doors for good. Even if these lawsuits do not accomplish…

Even if you noticed, seaworld would have lied and said that it happens in the wild.

One thing I really started to notice after Blackfish was how almost all of their Orca’s dorsal fins are bent. And then I felt really shamed for never noticing just how many were like that before.