6 Awful Realities Behind the Scenes at SeaWorld
This Cracked article came out in mid-March. I’m linking to it now after reading this lgf page. Seaworld is selling a beautiful image built atop an ugly truth.
A few years ago, I began working as a dolphin-training intern at SeaWorld Orlando. After half a decade of volunteering at every backwoods animal shelter and zoo I could find, as well as building my entire academic career around this possibility, I was finally reaping the benefits of my labors and working my dream job, so I lived happily ever after.
Or not.
By the end of the summer, I had seen enough to make me leave the field, throwing away a five-year career and my childhood dreams forever. Why? Well …