On the latest episode of The Politics of Survival podcast, hosted by Tara Reade, medical doctor, and Sea World whistleblower Jeffrey Ventre discusses the politics of the ocean. Ventre spent eight years working in Florida’s SeaWorld and, though he went in hoping to be a part of research that helps the wonderous creatures kept in the park, he eventually came to “realize that the animals are paying a huge price.”
“I thought there was going to be a lot more science going on,” he recounts to Reade.
“Really, what it was was kind of a marine version of the circus.”
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