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Vancouver Aquarium & BC SPCA Joint Fundraiser: Conflict of Interest
Dear All,

It's hard to believe, but the Vancouver Aquarium and the BC SPCA are having a joint fundraiser at the aquarium on Friday night November 28 from 7pm to midnight.

500 uninformed people will pay $55 to dance to loud music in an aquarium where more than 20,000 animals are kept in tanks and cages, and where partiers are encouraged to smoke outside by the whale pool.

This is an obvious conflict of interest. The BC SPCA's own policy opposes the use of animals in entertainment. By having a joint fundraiser with the Vancouver Aquarium it appears to the public, and especially to the people who are attending the dance at the aquarium, that the BC SPCA is endorsing the aquarium's cruel practice of keeping marine mammals in captivity.