Tillikum Vs Seaworld Research Paper

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How would you feel if you were taken away from your home, taken away from your family, for the enjoyment of others? How would you feel if you were left in a tiny box with very little food? This is how we treat animals for our own personal and selfish benefit. Human benefit should never overrule any damage or destruction to these innocent animals.
You may ask, what have humans done in the past and present to hurt animals? Why don’t you ask the 150 orcas that have been taken into captivity from the wild? In fact, 127 of them are now dead due to the cruelty by humans. Tillikum, a very well-known orca, is known for being a bad behaved orca because of a few incidents. But why is it that we blame Tillikum rather than SeaWorld or these incidents?

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