streetcarnage/blog/blackfish-snubbed/ I dont normally appreciate the opinions from this site, but this passage from this article struck me. I dont endorse zoos, but I do know that were stuck with a conundrum based upon both legacies of capture, and unregulated human activity world-wide. /// If you want to help protect killer whales, develop a safer way for ships to navigate their habitats. Come up with an alternative to the sonar technologies the Navy is using that leave whales, who rely on echolocation, effectively blind. Come up with a way to scrub our oceans and shores of the toxic chemicals seeping into their flesh and turning them into cancer sashimi at alarming rates. Even if Sea World was an evil organization, they’d be a minuscule part of the problems facing the species and it would still be hard to argue they’re doing more harm than good. Without Sea World, who would give a shit? So anyone that’s surprised Blackfish was excluded from the Academy Awards owes it to themselves to stop and think. From a filmmaking point of view it was an entertaining thriller with some bad pacing problems that couldn’t decide what its point was. From an animal-rights perspective, it ultimately throws orcas under the bus so it can turn Sea World into the Big Bad Wolf for its own sense of dramatic purpose. ///
Posted on: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 06:30:02 +0000