‘SeaWorld: Where Timeout Never Ends’ Message Appears Around Playgrounds

PETA Sidewalk Ads Tell Kids What Life Is Really Like for Animals at Marine Parks

For Immediate Release:
December 7, 2017

Contact:
David Perle 202-483-7382

Sidewalks near San Diego’s busiest parks and playgrounds now sport an eye-catching message from PETA. The sidewalk ads show a crying child in a tank of water above the words “SeaWorld: Where Timeout Never Ends. Never Visit SeaWorld or Any Marine Park.”

“Kids would run screaming from SeaWorld if they knew how orcas suffered and died in its barren tanks,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA’s sidewalk decals speak to kids in terms they can understand.”

Seven animals have died at SeaWorld this year alone. PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to use for entertainment”—is calling on the company to retire all the surviving marine mammals to coastal sanctuaries, where they’d have some semblance of a natural life.

The ad was conceived of by University of Southern California advertising students.

For more information, please visit SeaWorldOfHurt.com.