With the new year a new CEO has taken over at Sea World. The theme park has taken public relations hits related to its keeping orcas in captivity in which a film released last year entitled Blackfish showed Sea World in a bad light. The movie claimed that Sea World claimed that orcas were brutally removed from their habitat and lead terrible lives trapped in shallow tanks. USA Today reports the theme park has a new tank for the killer whales but it will not be ready until 2018. It maybe more challenging even to meet that goal since Sea World is experiencing reduced attendance and lower stock prices.

Fortunately, it looks like Sea World has no intention of doing what PETA wants the theme park to do. PETA insists Sea World to create a costal sanctuary for its orcas that would protect the animals from the misery and harassment of captivity at Sea World. The animal rights group also demands the theme park replace its live real-life experiences with ones based on virtual reality. Unfortunately, the bad publicity resulting from Blackfish also inspired a California lawmaker to introduce a bill banning the use of killer whales in California aquatic theme parks. Fortunately, the proposed law died in the legislature, but it added to the negative hype. PETA is also attempting other means of forcing Sea World to do the group’s bidding. USA Today points out:

PETA has stayed actively involved, buying stock in SeaWorld Entertainment to advance its whale cause from within. Last month, it said it submitted a resolution to fellow shareholders calling on the company to develop the coastal sanctuaries.

PETA used the management shakeup at SeaWorld to blast the departing CEO. “Jim Atchison’s watch has meant lawsuits, tanking stock, canceled performances by musical acts, falling ticket sales and continued deprivation and isolation for orcas at SeaWorld,” said Delcianna Winders, PETA Foundation’s deputy general counsel.

The fact that PETA expends so much time and effort to harass an aquatic theme park, like Sea World, shows that they are less concerned about the welfare of killer whales than they are about preventing humans from being entertained by animals. In other instances, the group also supports bans on the use of animals in circuses. There are any number of activities PETA will campaign against because the group is nothing more than a bunch of prudes using animal welfare as an excuse to tell other people what to do with their lives. PETA’s ethic is to sacrifice mankind to the needs of animals who have no sense of morality or civilized behavior. Small wonder then PETA exists to protect animal welfare since the group is as savage as the creatures they exist to defend.