It’s been a while since I last wrote a post in this blog. A recent publication in Freedom for Whales’ Instagram account prompted me to share it, so here it goes:

” What a lot of people don’t realize about cetacean captivity is that once the show is over, you get to leave. You get to go explore the rest of the oceanarium, you get to leave and decide what you’d like for dinner. You get to go see your family, meet up with your friends, or even go meet new people. You get to travel and go see other places of the world. You get to decide what you want to do in your free time, like shopping, taking a nap, riding your bike, whatever. You get to live your life, and where are these dolphins and whales that you saw in a show a few years ago? If they haven’t died off from the stresses of being in captivity, they’re still there. In that same small, blue, concrete, featureless tank, swimming the same cramped circles. They’re still being fed the same dead fish, they’re still performing the same monotonous tricks. Life doesn’t change for them, they live the same stressful and boring life until they die. How do people support something like that? “