Tiger King has captured our shelter-in-place attention, but doesn't give adequate attention to the suffering of the beautiful big cats it stars. Here's what you can do to improve their lives while also serving the well-being of your family and our planet.
and another company’s to show them what's in the pork they were buying. Walmart did much worse than their competitor: there were superbugs in their meat. Our research helped educate them about this risk, as well as helping the public know what they’re eating if they buy these products.Eating less meat is a great start. And buy local and responsibly-raised meat when you do eat it.
Derick Debevoise: A lot of people reading are animal lovers, which is why they’ve visited elephant farms, swam with dolphins, and binged Tiger King. What do they need to know?most of the people that are going to these animal exhibits are animal lovers! They want to pet these tiger and bear cubs. But even as cubs, these are wild animals. It's not natural for them to be cuddling and not swiping at people. Often what we find is that they’re drugged, they're beaten, to be kept in that state.
When people swim with dolphins, they don’t realize that chlorine eats away at dolphins’ skin, for example. Or that dolphins pulling a human is not natural, which is why there's so many incidences of dolphins biting people. They’re used to swimming a hundred miles a day, so when they live in a tank, they're going to have more aggressive behavior. If we don't point these things out to people, they don't realize what's going on behind the scenes.
Derick Debevoise: How do you get people from a report they downloaded six months before vacation to making different decisions?We do traditional advertising campaigns, like during the Super Bowl in Miami, asking people not to swim with dolphins. We also partner with companies.
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