As you all very well may know, SeaWorld has been in the constant spotlight of various lawsuits throughout its existence, and that doesn't seem to be changing any time soon. SeaWorld's infamous mistreatment of animals, specifically Killer Whales, started a small animal rights movement and moved into something so big that the park found itself in steady decline. It's no wonder the company made a last-ditch effort to save their business by spying on the animal activists who were ruining it. But that doesn't make it okay. SeaWorld had its employees pose as activists to spy on the real ones. Here's where they went wrong: Americans hate spying more than almost anything.
On Thursday of last week SeaWorld made a statement that they were protecting the identity of their employees, but for some reason, that sounds a little bogus to me. Maybe that has a little something to do with the fact that lying and inching your way into activists groups and protests doesn't seem by any means an effective security practice. SeaWorld said that they had to protect their employees, but If anything it puts the employees in harms way by risking exposure as a fraud and spy. Which sounds worse to you: a man who works at SeaWorld because he needs the job or a man who worked for Sea World who then went undercover and spied on activists opposing his employer. I don't know about you, but the latter sounds a lot worse than the former to me.
What's worse is that this isn't the first time SeaWorld has spied, or even lied. SeaWorld has a long and checkered past with the America public, mainly consisting of deception. Even more importantly than it's bold-faced lies to the American public is the nature of the company itself. If you have to go undercover to spy on activists maybe you should rethink your business practices. After all, if you have perfectly sound, safe, and ethical business practices, I doubt you would have so many people up in arms about your company. The truth is, SeaWorld is responsible for a long list of unethical practices covered by lies.
SeaWorld has consistently stated that it is perfectly safe for trainers to be in the water with Orca whales, but history says differently. Let's remember all of the trainer deaths that their "well-taken care of" Orca whales have been responsible for. And it's not even the whale's fault. Not only does SeaWorld puts its trainers lives at stake, but it puts the whale's lives at stake too. After all, the median age for an Orca whale at SeaWorld is 9 years old while Orca whales in the wild live up to 90 years old or more. That's 10 times less than the lifespan of an Orca in the wild, yet SeaWorld still claims that the lifespans are the same.
