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December 7, 2023
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San Diego – On Sunday, the day earlier than the 54th anniversary of Corky the orca’s seize from her ocean house, PETA supporters wearing Santa Claus costumes will descend on SeaWorld to push the abusement park to peer the energy of public opinion in opposition to her ho-ho-horrible confinement and liberate her right into a seashore sanctuary.
When: Sunday, December 10, 12 midday
The place: 500 Sea Global Dr. (on the intersection of Sea Global Pressure and Sea Global Approach), San Diego
Corky, the longest-held captive orca on the planet, was once offered into the leisure business after being torn from her circle of relatives off the coast of British Columbia in 1969. She was once used for years as a breeding device, however none of her calves survived previous 47 days. Her remaining being pregnant resulted in a miscarriage when her useless child was once discovered on the backside of a concrete tank at SeaWorld.
“Corky belongs within the ocean, but SeaWorld is stubbornly conserving her prisoner in a cramped, chemically handled tank an identical to the dimensions of a tub for a human,” says PETA Government Vice President Tracy Reiman. “Nobody can flip again the clock on her seize, however now, earlier than she dies, she should be launched right into a seashore sanctuary, the place she may dive deep, swim unfastened, or even in all probability reunite along with her circle of relatives.”
PETA—whose motto reads, partly, that “animals don’t seem to be ours to make use of for leisure”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview.
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