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"One of the most visited places in Euskal Herria is a cage"

  • For five consecutive years on 1 November, the anti-specialist movement has been on the streets. This year they met in front of the San Sebastian Aquarium, "because a cage is one of the most visited places in the Basque Country".
Argazkia: Nor

02 November 2022 - 11:25

"The loose animals, not the cage, not the chain!" Under the motto "At the San Sebastian Aquarium, dozens of people met on Monday to spread support for animal rights and "show their support to individuals who are in cages inside the building", organized by anti-specist group Nor. They highlight that since 1928 nearly 5,000 animals have been exposed to Aquarimua. In 2028, it is 100 years since being one of the most touristic places in San Sebastian, but the objective of the anti-speciist movement is that this does not happen "so that they do not follow the captivation and oppression of non-human animals, neither in San Sebastian nor anywhere".

 

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They wanted to denounce the "lies" of the Aquarium and similar centers:

"Animals are well cared for"

For anti-specionists, welfare cannot be welfare when animals are free and "closed in golden cages". They have stressed that the death of healthy animals in these types of places is a common practice, when they do not know what to do with them and cannot profit from them." On the pretext of species conservation, they ensure that they push animals to proliferate to continue or trade with their pups in zoos or aquariums.

"They're animal learning centers."

Faced with this, the anti-specista movement says: "A visitor spends an average of 30 seconds looking at each cage. Information on panels is also scarce. The visitor will not learn about the personality of the individuals, will not know the behavior that would be free, the way to relate to their peers and will not awaken the visitor's awareness of the protection of these animals".

"They collect, care, heal and return to nature."

According to data from anti-specionists, none in a thousand. "It is 0.12% that returns to nature, they prefer to buy and sell, tie themselves in chains and get into cages."

They add that what happens in zooaquariums is not an exception, but a rule, because we have put the lives of non-human animals at the service of humans, usually for economic interests, but also for "customs, culture, parties, pleasure, comfort".


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