zoologicallyobsessed:

derangedhyena-delphinidae:

I don’t even know what to do or say re: anyone huffing about Blackfish and believing Seaworld’s stuff when there’s so much evidence of their unending nonsense and just Generally Being Not Great at things. Does the whole ‘Seaworld’s under multiple investigations for lying to consumers, shareholders’, etc not… er, clue folks in? 

But Blackfish!

Orca captures happened. Tilikum was a thing. People have died. It’s awful and people should know about it. Sure the film has issues, but they’re vanishingly small compared to the issues that the theme park whose literal purpose of existence is making money has.

mfw.

 guess those whales in buckets are Super Important.

This! Really sick of people insisting Seaworld has the best intentions at heart. It’s a corporation. They only care about profit and they have and will continue to fuck over whales and people alike if it makes them an extra $1.

Some people really need to reevaluate their attitudes towards capitalism and corporations. 

Also Seaworld aren’t amazing because they do a tiny bit of (bad) rescue operations and donate to conservation work, they’re not doing it because they care about their animals but because they want the public to have a positive view of them so they can continue to treat their animals like shit and brush off any claims of animal abuse against them and continue to make money. 

And it works! My god how it works on some of you!