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A V ision for
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The prospect of a SeaWorld in financial decline does not fill me with glee.
The company may be motivated by greed and it may have exploited
both orcas and trainers, but SeaWorld is, paradoxically, the best hope
for the 30 killer whales that it owns.
In its confrontation with orca advocates over proposed legislation
to ensure the well-being of its killer whales, SeaWorld does little to
hide the fact that it is, first and foremost, a business and more interested in conserving its assets and profits than in conserving species. During testimony for Californias proposed orca law, a lobbyist
representing SeaWorld said that if Assemblyman Blooms bill passed,
SeaWorld would simply move its whales out of California because it
could no longer make money on them in the state. Or else, the lobbyist threatened, if California forced SeaWorld to change its killer whale
policies, then California itself should foot the bill. You ban them, you
buy them.
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