SeaWorld Shuts Down Shamu's Twitter Feed (yes, the killer whale)
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#2still resting off the good pr laurels of free willy...
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#3Of course if any one of these animals could actually tweet, they would say "I am sick and miserable and slowly going insane in this small puddle, please let me out". But they cant tweet, so the only way they can communicate their displeasure is by dying early or killing one of their trainers.
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#4Of course if any one of these animals could actually tweet, they would say "I am sick and miserable and slowly going insane in this small puddle, please let me out". But they cant tweet, so the only way they can communicate their displeasure is by dying early or killing one of their trainers.
I trust that you are a vegetarian.
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#5Of course if any one of these animals could actually tweet, they would say "I am sick and miserable and slowly going insane in this small puddle, please let me out". But they cant tweet, so the only way they can communicate their displeasure is by dying early or killing one of their trainers.
I trust that you are a vegetarian.
No but of course that has nothing to do with it.
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#6Of course if any one of these animals could actually tweet, they would say "I am sick and miserable and slowly going insane in this small puddle, please let me out". But they cant tweet, so the only way they can communicate their displeasure is by dying early or killing one of their trainers.
I trust that you are a vegetarian.
You can care a lot about animal welfare and still eat meat -- witness Temple Grandin, who optimizes meat plants to minimize animal stress [1]:
"We owe it to the animals to give them decent living conditions and a painless death. People are often confused by the paradox of my work, but to my practical, scientific mind it makes sense to provide a painless death for the cattle I love. ... Often I get asked if I am a vegetarian. I eat meat, because I believe that a totally vegan diet, in which all animal products are eliminated, is unnatural." [2]
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
I trust that you are a vegetarian.
You can care a lot about animal welfare and still eat meat -- witness Temple Grandin, who optimizes meat plants to minimize animal stress [1]: "We owe it to the animals to give them decent living conditions and a painless death. People are often confused by the paradox of my work, but to my practical, scientific mind it makes sense to provide a painless death for the cattle I love. ... Often I get asked if I am a veg…
> "We owe it to the animals to give them decent living conditions"
The problem being that places where this is true are few and far between, even among 'organic' farms.
For example: Legally, 'free-range' chickens are only required to have 15 minutes of time out of their ridiculously small cages per day. And they are still packed so close together that farmers burn off their beaks so that they don't peck each other to death (which is mainly a symptom of over-crowding and less of a chicken's temperament). Is this treating the animal with respect (even if you are going to eat it) or is this treating the animal as another cog in the machine of industry (in this case the food production industry); reducing it from a living being into just a material or a resource?
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#9SeaWorld should really be ashamed of themselves. Which is more important: profits, or human lives?
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#10Of course if any one of these animals could actually tweet, they would say "I am sick and miserable and slowly going insane in this small puddle, please let me out". But they cant tweet, so the only way they can communicate their displeasure is by dying early or killing one of their trainers.
Slightly related, amusing comment by a friend of mine on Twitter:
"It's sad that now we can finally communicate with plants and ovens, we limit their expression to 140 characters."