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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP: watch The Cove on Netflix or Apple TV; you'll get the  real scoop on dolphins and how they're chosen for tanks around the world, ripped from the pod and family members.  After the selection process, the rest of the pod is slaughtered, thus turning the cove red from their blood.  Really, you should watch it and then decide if you want to condone dolphins in captivity.[/quote]

+1. I can't believe this isn't mentioned more often. Do people really not know that this is how dolphin swim places get their dolphins?  [/quote]

Can I ask why they slaughter the rest of the pod?  That part seems weird and unnecessary to me.  
I'm a meat eater, but I can't understand why some people think that condones any mistreatment of animals.  Like, if you eat meat, you can't complain about someone kicking their dog because it's better to be kicked than eaten?  That seems like an indefensible position.

Some places that have captive animals have them because they rescued them from either worse situations (like one of the elephants at the National Zoo, who was being worked to death in a logging camp), or because they couldn't survive in the wild (there's a one-eyed owl at the Watkins Park nature center).  I guess I also don't know enough about dolphins to know how they feel about being captive.  Dogs will miss their mother dog when separated, but grow to love their human family (usually) and are generally happier with their humans than they would be just wandering around wild with other dogs.  Dolphins are relatively social, so I guess I can see an argument that they enjoy hanging out with humans and playing games with them....but I don't really know.  I think I defer to the folks at the National Aquarium, that recently decided it isn't nice to keep their dolphins.[/quote]

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