Argumentative Essay: Should Sea Animals Be In Captivity

While you're paying money to go see sea animal do tricks, looking like they're happy and having the time of their lives, you’re actually just paying for more equipment for them to make these sea animals lives even more miserable. In captivity, many sea animals such as Orcas suffer from poor physical and mental health. When they are not in captivity they can travel 50 to 100 miles a day. But with them being in places like sea world their tanks are normally only twice their size, forcing the animals to swim in small circles or float aimlessly.(Lemonick 2) Sea animals should not be in captivity. That is not how their lives are meant to be. It not only bad for their health but comes with serious consequences. Aggressive whale behavior to humans, …show more content…
“We foster the ideology that these creatures should be performing for us. What kind of education is that? It’s gross injustice.” says Kevin Walsh (Lemonick 2) This statement is very true. Animals that are naturally meant to be swimming around and doing as they please, they should not be having to be given food, to do strange tricks, that is not fair and does not come natural to them. There are many whales that are now starting to attack humans, studies show that they never attack when they are in the wild. The species killer whales are now so traumatized by being in their tiny pool that they call “suitable captivity” that they are now turing on their human trainers and killing or at least hurting them. (Business time 1) A former seaward employee speaks up about his experience with the animals and how they where treaded. “I owe those whales”, he states “They gave me so much in my life and my career. But the whales’ physical and emotional well-being, he grew to believe, was incompatible with captivity.” (Hargrove 1) He said that the incapability to take care of these animals and the things they made them do turned them over to the “dark