Posted on 04/26/2016 9:05:24 AM PDT by jazusamo
Fresh off a victory over SeaWorld and its controversial orca program, animal rights groups are zeroing in on zoos, aquariums and circuses -- and one prominent expert warns your dog and cat could be next.
A well-funded coalition of nonprofits finally broke SeaWorld, when the theme park chain announced in March it would phase out its popular killer whale program. Now the groups smell blood in the water – and on land.
“The tide is turning against SeaWorld and other aquariums and zoos,” Ashley Bryne, a campaign specialist at PETA, told FoxNews.com. “I think this is a sign of what’s to come.”
“Animal rights activists believe all animals, including your dog or cat, should have the same rights as people and be free; therefore they shouldn’t be in human care under any circumstances.”
- Jack Hanna
In the announcement signaling the end of its orca program, SeaWorld Entertainment CEO Joel Manby acknowledged the animal rights groups’ success in changing the public's perception about animals in captivity.
"Society's attitude toward these very, very large, majestic animals under human care has shifted for a variety of reasons, whether it's a film, legislation, or people's comments on the Internet," Manby said. "It wasn't worth fighting that. We needed to move where society was moving."
Attendance at SeaWorld’s three parks began slipping in 2013 following the release of “Blackfish,” a highly critical documentary about the orca whale program. But the acclaimed film merely gave momentum to a broader, existing campaign that extends to Las Vegas acts, circuses and even the iconic horse-drawn carriages that tour New York City’s Central Park. Anywhere animals live in captivity, an increasing number of nonprofits have launched campaigns to stop the alleged mistreatment.
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You gotta hand it to Rush Limbaugh. He sees this kind of crap happening a mile off. Your natural inclination is to laugh it off as preposterous, but here we are.
i believe peta people should be the ones in cages. biggest’killer of animals i have ever read about.
I welcome any PITA freak that wants to come here and try enforcing any of their nonsense.
Agreed...PETA would rather kill an animal than have people give it a home.
Lots of FReepers are happy to be unwitting dupes for PETA. Just get on any, “pit bull attack,” thread and look at all the so-called conservatives supporting the banning of pet ownership and citing faulty studies. PETA and other animal rights groups are inflaming the pit bull propoganda to set the precedent to bar pet ownership. It will just be the first domino.
Agreed. Well said, Joe.
They will have to pry my weinerdog from my cold dead fingers.
That's a propaganda statement and I would disagree. Sea World caved because they could not afford the continuous lawsuits brought against them by the various animal rights groups such as the WWF and especially the HSUS.
The HSUS is a bogus animal rights group that does nothing to help pets in shelters but rather uses all the donations to fund their lawyers.........
They will have to pry their cold dead fingers from my Chow Chow.
Yep, HSUS is as bad if not worse than PETA.
"Animal rights activists believe all animals, including your dog or cat, should have the same rights as people and be free; therefore they shouldn't be in human care under any circumstances." -- Jack HannaAll such animal rights activists should have their throats cut, then.
Where's the evidence that "the public's perception" has been changed?
A small, vocal group is not "the public", and by caving to them you merely make them stronger.
Kind of like queers and their various associated mentally ill brethren...
Talk about tyranny by a minority.
PETA is in it for the money and plays on the emotions of animal loving people for that money.
People don’t own cats. Cats own people.
Exactly, that’s why we’ve only had dogs, :)
Then neither should welfare recipients. How are they ever going to learn to survive in the wild if we keep feeding them?
They can take my dog when they pry his gun from his cold, dead paws.
Let them try to take our dog from us - the dog will rip out their throats.
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