Keep shaking your head. The crux of the movement is the notion that 'animals do no belong or thrive in captivity', yet most animal rights advocates are very selective about how/when they apply the doctrine to themselves. It would seem many animal rights activists are actually pet owners as well. Guess the thinking is that you have to be a card carrying activist in order to be able properly care for an animal, thus giving you the right to keep an animal in captivity, but trained professionals in zoos and aquariums? Shit, they know nothing apparently.
There is a big difference between ensuring proper care through stringent industry regulation, and advocating the complete abolition of animals in captivity. Most of the activists I can't take too seriously largely due to their extremist, yet contradictory viewpoints and behaviors. Marineland may be front and centre due to allegations of questionable levels of acceptable care, but activists would paint all with the same brush. So tired. I just can't get worked up about the hypocrisy anymore.
Gee, I wonder...how many of these animal rights activists are vegans? Oh, sorry, forgot - animal rights are only important for certain types of animals, and only in very certain contexts, right? No such thing as universal animal rights, even to the activists!
LOL!