As the topic of the film "Black Whale" continued to ferment, animal protectionists and the public relations team of Sea World went back and forth for several years, and finally, under the pressure of public opinion, the killer whale performance was permanently shut down. This is the power that documentaries can bring. Almost an entire industry has been wiped out from beginning to end, the initial investment of Sea World has been wiped out, and related practitioners such as killer whale trainers, feeders, and catchers have lost their jobs. The killer whales released in the sea do not know whether they can adapt to the original wild environment after being accustomed to captivity, and what is their fate.
Like the Chinese anti-animal circus film "Trap", "Black Whale" is a firm animal protection stance. Sea World is portrayed as a capital tycoon who hides the truth, disregarding the safety of the trainer for profit, and has become an annoying character in the film. The rationality of the killer whale performance itself has also been questioned. The killer whale was imprisoned, bullied by other killer whales, and forced to be separated from his family as a social animal.
It's true that in a modern age where the entertainment industry is so developed, we don't need marine animals to endure pain and twist nature to make us laugh, but the intersection and boundary between humans and animals, and the position of animal protectionists still baffles me. On the food chain, hunting and hunting among animals is a natural norm and a necessary means to maintain the ecology. As the top of the food chain, should humans become complete vegetarians out of pity for their fellow mammals? If entertainment and predation are two concepts, then from the initial domestication of wolves to the birth of dogs, it was a process of transforming creatures to meet their own needs. Nowadays, people get great spiritual satisfaction from dogs, shouldn’t they? To blame the ancestors who first limited the wolf's nature?
I'm not sure where humanity's over-engineering of the world is taking us, or how much justified the aggressive attitude of animal advocates.
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