PETA to InBev: We'd like to buy SeaWorld

[flvegan]

"...now that Anheuser-Busch is being taken over by InBev, a Belgium-based beverage giant, and InBev is thinking of selling SeaWorld to finance the new business venture.

PETA sent a letter to the CEO of InBev this morning offering to buy the marine mammal parks and their captive animals, thanks to a very generous PETA donor. Have we mentioned before how compassionate and amazing our donors and supporters are?!

Just don't expect penguin enclosures, sting-ray petting tanks, or hoop-jumping dolphins. PETA's vision is to turn the animal-exploiting money-maker into an educational non-animal theme park with state-of-the art virtual marine mammal displays that are so realistic that it's as if you're nose to snout with Flipper. And the animals currently held captive in the parks would be rehabilitated in coastal sanctuaries before being released back into their natural environments—a place many of the mammals remember fondly from before they were captured, sent to flounder (geddit?) in SeaWorld's small pools, and forced to perform mindless tricks, over and over and over and over and over again, for the amusement of little children.

Virtual reality technology has become so advanced that there is absolutely no need to make animals suffer or to put them in danger for human enjoyment or education. 3-D effects put us right in the action—and make us feel as if we're swimming in the cold Pacific with the great whites. It's safe for the animals, and you don't have to worry about losing a leg or being painfully stung by jellyfish."

http://blog.peta.org/archives/2008/08/a_peta_theme_pa_1.php

This would be brilliant.

[Hun Joro]

1. That's fantastic news.

I'd be happy to visit a Sea World for the first time ever if that happens.

[flvegan]

2. Nice avatar.

Noticed the sticky last night, too.

[Hun Joro]

3. Thanks :)

The stickies roll off so quickly I was wondering if anyone would notice it. Was hoping to get a little attention for the radio show. They're hoping to go national at some point.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

4. I've been debaing about posting this.....but here goes

I have some issues with releasing these animals back into the wild. No, not because I think we should keep them in small tanks to be made to do tricks and be pet...

Its just, we are literally destroying their world. So releasing them back into the wild is just going to quicken their deaths via pollution, fishing, poaching, loss of habitat, etc. Would it not be more prudent to turn these places into true sanctuaries for animals, trying to at least give them some shelter from the fuck-storm of human selfishness that is going to wipe out the diverse life of our oceans and other animal habitats? I mean, to spend time and money to rehabilitate these animals only to let them get fished and killed seems like such a waste. They are going to be gone from the wild soon enough....shouldn't we make these aquariums real sanctuaries to try and give these animals the best we can and make them into true places of education for humans?

...I dunno, just some thoughts...