Victory! Sponsors ‘Ghost’ SeaWorld Halloween Event After PETA Outreach
For Immediate Release:
October 16, 2025
Contact:
David Perle 202-483-7382
New York-based BODYARMOR and California-based Disguise Costumes are the latest sponsors to run screaming from SeaWorld’s Halloween-themed 5K event after hearing from PETA about how dolphins and whales suffer in the abusement park’s tiny concrete tanks. PETA is now calling on Road Runner Sports and FIT4MOM to do so too.
“The misery that marine animals suffer all day every day, all night every night, in SeaWorld’s cramped, barren tanks is far more grotesque than any Halloween horror-show,” says PETA President Tracy Reiman. “PETA applauds BODYARMOR and Disguise Costumes for ghosting SeaWorld’s 5K and urges Road Runner Sports and FIT4MOM to join them.”
In nature, highly intelligent, far-ranging orcas work cooperatively in search of food and share complex relationships in a matrilineal society. The lives of more than 40 orcas and over 500 other dolphins and whales have been snuffed out at SeaWorld, many prematurely. The survivors lead dismal lives of deprivation, with nothing to do but swim in circles and fend off attacks from their stressed tankmates.
BODYARMOR (which also received emails from more than 50,000 PETA supporters about the sponsorship) and Disguise Costumes join a long list of companies—including Snickers, Mott’s, Smarties, Albanese, Colombina Candy Company, Hyundai Motor America, JetBlue Airways, and Southwest Airlines—that have cut ties with SeaWorld.
PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to use for entertainment”—points out that Every Animal Is Someone and offers free Empathy Kits for people who need a lesson in kindness. For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow PETA on X, Facebook, or Instagram.
