‘400 Dolphins Dead’: Animal Allies to Confront SeaWorld Visitors With Ugly Truth
For Immediate Release:
July 17, 2025
Contact:
David Perle 202-483-7382
In the run-up to “Boycott SeaWorld Day,” animal advocates from PETA and Animal Rights Foundation of Florida will descend on SeaWorld’s entrance this Saturday to alert passersby that over 400 dolphins have died so far at SeaWorld parks. The company “replaces” them through its sordid breeding program, in which the animals are sexually abused and sometimes drugged so that they can’t fight back when staff shove tubes filled with semen into their uteruses.
“In nature, dolphins choose their own mates and can swim up to sixty miles a day, but at SeaWorld, they’re confined to tiny concrete tanks and forcibly impregnated,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA is calling on SeaWorld to end its abusive breeding program and urges the public to boycott this hellhole.”
PETA rallies will be held outside the abusement parks in Orlando, San Antonio, and San Diego, leading up to “Boycott SeaWorld Day” on July 24. PETA encourages everyone to urge SeaWorld to stop breeding dolphins and whales and send them to seaside sanctuaries.
Where: 7007 Sea World Drive, near the Central Florida Parkway intersection, Orlando
When: Saturday, July 19, 9 a.m.
PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to use for entertainment”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview.
For more information, please visit PETA.org, listen to The PETA Podcast, or follow the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.
