Tag Archives: SeaWorld

NPR reports: In a major concession to critics and animal welfare groups, SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment Inc. says it will stop breeding captive killer whales. SeaWorld’s treatment of its killer whales, or orcas, was put in the spotlight three years ago by Blackfish, a documentary that examined the death of SeaWorld trainer Dawn Brancheau, who was killed by an orca …

Oh brother. Via the San Diego Union-Tribune: PETA is stepping up its anti-SeaWorld campaign with a billboard it hopes to place in San Diego featuring an apparently naked man atop a toy orca below the message: “SeaWorld: Where grown men perform sex acts on orcas.” While it’s unlikely the animal rights group will find a billboard company willing to accept …