California agency votes to ban SeaWorld orca breeding

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD

LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — The California Coastal Commission approved a $100 million expansion of the tanks SeaWorld uses to hold killer whales in San Diego — but it banned breeding of the captive orcas that would live in them.

Animal rights activists praised Thursday's decision as a death blow to the use of killer whales at the California ocean park.

The vote "ensures that no more orcas will be condemned to a nonlife of loneliness, deprivation and misery," said a statement from People from the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

"These 11 orcas would be the last 11 orcas there," PETA lawyer Jared Goodman said after the meeting, referring to the whales at the California marine park.

FULL story at link.


Animal rights activist Kirby Kotler, with his daughter Kirra, 12, from Malibu, Calif., holds up signs as opponents and supporters fill the room during a California Coastal Commission meeting, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015, in Long Beach, Calif. The commission is considering a vast expansion to the tanks that SeaWorld uses to hold killer whales in San Diego. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

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[uawchild]

1. BAN Sea World itself.

I mean, good lord, didn't even the Ringley Brothers Circus owners see the light and have or are in the process of eliminating all their Elephant "acts" (read abuse)? Sea World needs to see the light and just stop.

[restorefreedom]

2. the beginning of the end

finally, people are starting to get it

#emptythetanks

[wordpix]

3. those 11 orcas should be freed - boycott Sea World, they deserve to go under big time

Screw them and their million$ on the backs of sea mammals.

[Travis_0004]

4. An important thing to note

California is banning breading the captive orcas that live in the tanks. Therefore Sea world could turn down the project, keep the exisiting tanks, and continue to breed more orcas. So this ruling doesn't necessary mean there won't be more orcas bred.


They can continue to breed them as long as they want, as long as they don't go through with the permit plans to build larger tanks.