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“HYACK? 'S HAVING a 1 whale of a time”? said the he: adline as

in The Sun. God, ! wish they: stop using that cliche! | i

The entire implication is that the © only reason the bull fight continues
whales are ina cetacean luxury “to enjoy its bloody popularity
hotel instead Of a sensory depriva- because the bulls have been muted
“tion tank, — bred so that their vocal cords

I haven’t,been down to see -/are shrunk to nothing and they tite
what's going on at the aquarium, ’ erally cannot scream, a
fora coupe ‘of years, having =. Thus, the weirdos,can enjoy the
decided to; ‘boycott the joint. = spectacle of their torment, Kidding
© Vtry to/satisfy myself with the themselves that nothing is wrong
belief that future generations will. because, after all, the animal :
“ look’ back on the actions of men, makes no complaint. i
‘like aqgarium potentate Murray. ‘In the case of the whales, no one

din-with a wrinkling of the knows what their cries mean,|so we

= take them to be little squeaks of
delight. They aren't,

, After you have seen whales —

mall children will actually
course.
Adutts by then will realize the poor .
“guy, was no more to. blame for his.
a ‘insiinsitivity and i ignorance than
: Neanderthal Man for his. 1

ural clement, no one can hel
. become aware of just how awful it
has to be for creatures of such ©
power and swiftness and sense of
community to be confined i ina
fish-tank: f, x
» Whales that are plunked into
virtual backyard swimming pools
dic a long time before, they. would ©
in the wilds; As you can tell froma
» simple glance at their;crippled fins
- after they've been i ina tank, long
e ough, tl ey sink into apathy.

capture and imprisonment of
“¢reatures like whales for human
profit and glory.as something that
only a barbarian would consider.
it’s a/blatant form of cruelty, to
animais, different from bull- .

kes to kill the animal.

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“any kind of whales — in their nat-:

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E Eventually, like Skana, they "|
perish, still uttering pitiful cries td
sec if by: some miracle another vy
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Don't joke with me. They do
absolutely no research at all, ev-
cept perhaps into the acquiring of
blue-chip membership lists fram

other organizations,

Is it to educate the public about
whales? .

Give me a break: H's a circus,
puse and simple, mearit to make
people laugh.

During. the long years of the un-
finished worldwide, struggle to save
wild whales (rom extinction, the/
Vancouver Aquarium was con- | |
spictious in its absence.

It stepped aside from the fray
entirely pretending that it was!
somchow helping the.cause by: /
reducing whales on display to. the
level of trained chipmunks.” ;

Were the f facts of the decline of

" Vy hales. that are plunked into virtual al budkyard
Swimining pools die a long time before ‘they would
in the wilds. As you can tell from a single glance
at their crippled fins after they’ ve been.in a tarik

: ‘ong enough, they sink into 2 apathy. pepe

A kind of collective mental hal-
lucination is invalved here! To see

‘through it you have to ask |

yourself; Why do Murray Newman
and his nicely-p aid staff have.
three whales in captivity?

Is it for scientific research?

iw haling ever mentioned ta those -
‘hordes who came to ‘gawk at the
ig Fish” that‘could-j jump
eee hoops? . fo!
» Were the names ‘of the whaling
hations ever mentioned? Heavens

. no Look how many of those

‘oting away with, and the anger

” visitors are Japanese? Wouldn't

want to gffend the paying custome

fem.

tes

it was a +/politicat ise: a
therefore phe gutless aquaria ;
stayed! away from even so much as
whispering j in anyone's ears that
there/was nothing the-matter at all.

W anada’s shameful and
hypocritical siaad on whaling ever
told to the visitors? Ho ho. :

Was anything other than cule,
expensive junk ever seld at the
aquarium? ht was afl pure exploita-

tion,

And why is it that while you:
could find lots of glossy tabletop
books about the wonderful whales,
books deemed ‘‘controversial’—
i.e., concerning Greenpeace or
Paul Watson — were never to be

_found on sale at the aquarium?

jl suppose the saddest. part is.
that the aquarium has a rare op-
portunity to truly educate the right
/group — namely the influx of

. / visitors from the worst of the of-

; fending whaling nations, a country
that is now operating virtually’ asa
pirate whaler, mounting commer-
cially senseless attacks'on the re-
maining Antarctic Minke whales
purely to serve: ‘internal political
whims.) >:
Den't mind me. ' read stupid
"headlines like that one inThe Sun,
and [think about what Murray
” Mewman is still getting away. with,
“and what the Japanese are still get-

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