SOUR Loser! Third Candy Company Drops SeaWorld After Push From PETA

For Immediate Release:
November 1, 2024

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After losing Smarties Candy Company and Albanese Confectionery as partners of its Halloween event over its confinement of marine mammals, SeaWorld can now kiss Colombina Candy Company goodbye as well. The multinational candy brand—whose U.S. headquarters is in Miami and which operates in 80 countries—just told PETA that it won’t renew its partnership with SeaWorld after hearing that the nightmarish abusement park deprives ocean-dwelling mammals of any real life, imprisoning them in small concrete tanks and exploiting them, sometimes leading to their premature deaths.

“Colombina Candy Company just made the world a sweeter place for animals by cutting ties with SeaWorld,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA is calling on the horror-show park to relocate the surviving whales and dolphins to seaside sanctuaries before its tiny tank prisons become a watery graveyard for anyone else.”

An orca with a collapsed dorsal fin, which is rare in wild orcas, at SeaWorld. Credit: PETA

The lives of more than 40 orcas and over 500 other dolphins and whales have been snuffed out at SeaWorld. The survivors lead dismal lives of deprivation, with nothing to do but swim in circles and fend off attacks from their stressed tankmates. In nature, highly intelligent, far-ranging orcas work cooperatively in search of food and share complex relationships in a matrilineal society.

Many other brands have severed ties with SeaWorld, including Snickers, Mott’s, Hyundai Motor America, JetBlue Airways, and Southwest Airlines.

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 the group on X, Facebook, or Instagram.