Cabo Dolphin Center Protest
Recently, we found ourselves in Cabo San Lucas (I know good environmentalists don’t fly, but we did offset, fly economy, packed lightly and made sure to void our bladders/bowels before getting on the plane – every little bit helps). We were staying in a reasonably nice all-inclusive hotel that, aside from the food wastage and overuse of pesticides to keep cockroaches and other insects at bay, seemed like a pleasant enough place. We both speak Spanish so it made it a bit easier to get to know and connect with the local people.
All was going well in the "make believe tourist world" we were inhabiting when, on our second day in Cabo, I found out that there is a Cabo Dolphin Center where people can watch dolphins ‘perform’ and/or have the opportunity to swim with the captive animals. I know this is a mainstream dream for many people, but I tell myself that people simply don’t understand, or don’t want to see, the ugly reality behind the cheery dispositions of these highly intelligent captive mammals.
As dolphin activist Richard O'Barry explains; “A dolphin's smile is the greatest deception. It creates the illusion that they're always happy." And, for anyone who has seen the Oscar , we know, and cannot ignore, the brutal reality of the international dolphin trade.
Each year more than 23,000 dolphins are herded into a no-longer-secret cove in Taiji, Japan where the ‘best’ animals are selected for sale to dolphin centers and aquariums around the world, while the remaining animals are brutally slaughtered and sold for meat. A dead dolphin sells for about US$600 (€418) and a live one can fetch upwards of over $US150,000 (€104,450).
employees quickly escalated to threatening to have us deported, arrested, suing us, and also insinuating that they would make trouble for us at immigration - all the while screaming in our faces that it was a real mistake to mess with them.
We held our ground, as we knew we were standing on public property and told them to go ahead and call the police. The experience was extremely unpleasant, threatening and more than a little scary. If this is even a small indication of the reality of the dolphin industry where people will do anything to protect this exploitative multi-billion dollar industry and continue to perpetuate, at any cost, the myth of the happy captive dolphins that love to swim with humans, then people really do need to learn more about the reality of dolphins held in captivity solely for profit and exploitation.
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Recently, we found ourselves in Cabo San Lucas (I know good environmentalists don't fly, but we did offset, fly economy, packed lightly and made sure to void our bladders/bowels before getting on the plane – every little bit helps).
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