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Top Ten Reasons to Shut Down SeaWorld

Created by Hazel Mitchell Staff · May 2024 · Updated Jun 2025

Top Ten Reasons to Shut Down SeaWorld: 35 items ranked by popular vote. Browse more in Travel.

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A Tank Can't Replace the Ocean

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Sea World Breaks the Animal Welfare Act

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Sea World Breeds with No Regard to the Animal's Health

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It Isn't Safe for the Public

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In Sea World, They Live Shorter Lives

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They Separate Calves from Their Mothers

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Animals are Taken from Their Life and Family

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They Drug Their Whales

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They Stole Baby Emperor Penguins

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It's Cruelty Disguising as "Entertainment "

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Seaworld Only Gives the Animals Food If They Do the Tricks Right.

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The Collapsed Dorsal Fins

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The Way It Started

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They Will Stop Orca Shows in 2016

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The Orcas Burn in the Sun

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The People that Own It Only Care About Money

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They Lie to the Public

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They Kill Almost Every Animal Taken in to Their Services

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The Rides Suck

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They Kill the Blackfish

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They Try to Make the Animals Seem Bad

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Their Whales Become Aggressive Because of Captivity

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The Whales and Penguins are Treated Unnaturally

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They Constantly Lie About Animals

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They're Bad Caretakers

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They Downgraded Journey to Atlantis

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The Workers are Ugly

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The Trainers are Not Biologists

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The People Stink There

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It's Nasty There

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The Tanks are Dangerous for the Animals

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Orcas at Seaworld Have Shorter Lifespans

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A Female Trainer Got Killed by an Orca

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They are Taken Away from Family and Friends

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It Gives Animal Rights Extremists Something to Hate

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