Green - An environmentalist community

A zoo is a business, and there are good, decent, and bad zoos out there. But the people working there and visiting there are there because of their fascination for animals. They're not a single solution to all the issues animals face, but they're doing more pro-animal than most businesses are.

To compare zoos to rescues seems a bit disingenuous, especially when the author is from an animal liberation organization. Rescues serve a different purpose and are funded differently and have different rules to follow. I'm not against any of the ideas the author supports, but I don't see it as a zero sum game. There is room for different organizations to support animals in different ways.

I don't mean offense to anyone reading here, and not to the author either, because I believe there are ethical ways to have animals in captivity, but here's what I don't get. Author goes on about how animals don't get to consent to where they're placed in captivity, that there's no need to have captive animals that aren't endangered, that zoos should at least not serve meat, etc., but then this same guy lives in the city, with a large dog, that he buys ground up animals to feed to the dog, but that's ok. And that's where I feel his right to criticize others on this stops.

Want to advocate for better treatment? Good.

Want to promote vegetarianism or veganism? Good.

Want tight regulations on places and people that keep animals? Good.

But nobody else should do what I do because I do it the right way? I'm not as cool with that. If you're going to paint all zoos and aquariums as overall morally bad while you do the same thing with no rules or oversight doesn't sit right with me.

Again, just my opinion. Check my posts, I promote animal rescues every day on here. I think good animals centers do good work, whether it's a for profit business or a non-profit. In some states, zoos are the only ones licensed to rehabilitate some animals. If not for the zoo, those local animals that could be healed and released again would be euthanized.

Sorry again, this stuff just gets me worked up. Some people would rather throw everything out than have an imperfect but still working system...