Barbie Breaks Up With SeaWorld
May 17, 2015
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as posted by the channel"Being a killer whale trainer at SeaWorld was once a dream job, befitting the sort of worldly blonde who lives in a dream house.
No more. Barbie seems to be voting with her plastic molded feet against keeping cetaceans in captivity.
Mattel announced last week that the company would no longer produce SeaWorld Trainer Barbie dolls, which came packaged with what Reuters describes, rather pointedly, as "a toy whale and a toy dolphin, which squirt water, and a tiny fish pool."
"I’d say it was always a bad idea to teach children that the best way to treat magnificent wild creatures is to capture them, house them in the equivalent of a bathtub, and force them to perform. It looks like Mattel finally agrees," Animal Legal Defense Fund attorney Carter Dillard said in an email."
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