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Letter Of Note of the Day: Courtesy of TMZ, a letter penned by Mr. Tommy Lee — in Papyrus, so you know it’s serious — on behalf of his friends at PETA, calling out SeaWorld for their inhumane whale masturbation methods.

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UPDATE: FWIW, SeaWorld denies the use of cow vaginas in whale sperm collection.

But they don’t deny the rest, which is telling. I did a report in high school about places like Sea World, where sea creatures are kept and the abuse that occurs and I haven’t been back to one since. The way these animals are treated is horrible. They’re starved to do those tricks and kept in tanks that are far too small for them regardless of how deep they are. If it’s not the ocean, it’s not deep enough! I’m all for the preservation of animal species, especially since they’re all being run out of their natural habitats, but this isn’t about that. This is about money and turning a whale into a circus animal. (And don’t get me started on fucking circuses!)

Sea World might honestly be my definition of hell on earth. My sister and I went when we were in San Diego in May and it was the appalling low point of our entire trip. I’m just going to copy and paste from my post about it because I’m lazy:

1. They have an outdoor area where you can get up close to the penguins. They have clear signs telling people not to touch the penguins because they’ll bite. I don’t know about you, but I a) don’t trust people to read signs, let alone b) actually abide by what they say. In an amazing display of douchedom, there were numerous people poking the penguins. POKING THEM. I kept waiting for one of them to bite these people but it never happened. Why on earth do they not have any staff people around to enforce their rules when people are in such close proximity to the animals? It was astounding.
2. The stingray pool is designed as an animal interaction area where you can touch them. At the Toronto Zoo, they have (had?) something similar but you had to wash your hands before being able to touch the stingrays so that you removed any kind of harmful lotions or creams that might harm the animals or their environment. Evidently Sea World does not care about this, because you can just dive right in there with the dirtiest of hands if you want and they won’t care. o_O
3. I imagine because people are idiots, Sea World probably had a problem with people throwing random crap into the sea lion tank. I’m guessing that one way to combat this was to provide people with the opportunity to buy food (fish) to feed to the sea lions by throwing it into the tank instead of the random crap they used to throw. Good idea in general, I guess. Except people hold the fish over the side of the tank and taunt the animals instead of letting them eat it. THEY TAUNT SEA LIONS. (I think it goes without saying, too, that they obviously aren’t required to wash their hands first.) The person doing a brief talk on sea lions told people not to taunt them but, again, this really had no effect and much more enforcement was needed. I couldn’t believe it.

Amongst a variety of other user-experience sins committed by the park, most of which make it clear that they’re concerned about money and not animal welfare. The only thing that improved the Sea World experience was going to the San Diego Zoo the next day where it was abundantly clear that they, you know, CARE ABOUT ANIMALS. Greatest zoo on earth.

This is the rare occurrence where you will see me agreeing with a) PETA, b) a member of Motley Crue, and c) something written in Papyrus.

I remember reading this when you posted about it and it made me as sick then as it’s making me now. I almost always think PETA gets it wrong in their fight for animal rights, but this isn’t one of those cases. Sea World, and parks like it, are fucking horrible and shouldn’t exist. And the people who do the types of things you witnessed should be fucking punched. I was at the Los Angeles Zoo once and watched some asshole kids throw their TRASH in the hippo enclosure. TRASH. And when I went to find someone to inform, I couldn’t find a single person working there. But my hatred for the LA Zoo belongs in another post. (Because despite the fact that I got to pet a giraffe’s nose while it ate a bunch of leaves out of my hand, the enclosures are way too close to humans and way, way, way too small for the animals). 

So basically? Human beings largely suck.

(Source: thedailywhat)