Six Ways You Can Help Captive Killer Whales deathatseaworld/?p=634 Posted on June 5, 2013 by David Kirby This article first appeared at takepart Ever since my book Death At SeaWorld was released, nearly a year ago, I have received countless emails from concerned readers who were so disturbed by the lives of killer whales in captivity that they wanted to do something about it. But how? What, if anything, they wanted to know, can the average citizen do to improve the lives of orcas housed in glass-and-concrete tanks owned by powerful corporations? Emily Vargo, a Spanish teacher from Maryland, for example, told me about how her father, a former SeaWorld employee who is now “very critical of the treatment of park animals,” read her excerpts from the book. “I cried and asked him to stop–I couldn’t take it!” she wrote “I just wanted to write you to see if there is anything one person can do? I am powerless but want to do something to speak for those creatures that don’t have a voice. It’s a depressing world we live in, and I figured there must be something I can do–something my father can do?” That same question has been coming up repeatedly after screenings of the documentary Blackfish at film festivals around the world. Director Gabriela Cowperthwaite tells TakePart that, during Q/A sessions at screenings, it’s often the first question out of the gate: “What can we do?” Read more here: deathatseaworld/?p=634
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