Controversy has raged online due to a recently opened attraction at Space World in Fukuoka featuring an aquarium that has decided to freeze all the underwater life they had on display, an act that has prompted angered animal activists to frantically rush to their keyboards.
Space World, unaware of the backlash that would surface, were quite proud of the attraction as it was apparently the first ever of its kind (perhaps, in retrospect, for good reason), trapping over 5,000 fish underneath a ice rink which visitors could skate on top of – a “disgusting” decision that many online denizens have described to be “disrespectful to life” as the animals were slaughtered purely for “entertainment”.
Images of the “captured” ocean life at the attraction:
Further rage emerged online after images were released depicting what seemed to be blood in the ice:
Attempting to control the outrage, Space World responded by claiming that the fish used in the attraction were purchased dead – and in fact, were considered below the standard of quality for sale.
In regards to the more exotic animals present in the display (such as stingrays and whale sharks), Space World has commented that the animals were actually fake, merely photographs inserted below the ice – though some may believe this to just be an excuse to cover up their misdeeds.
Despite revealing the attraction to be apparently harmless, Space World removed almost all photos, Facebook posts and tweets regarding the event and offered a heartfelt apology all the same.
Animal rights types are stupid as there is no way they could put a real whale shark or rays under the ice as it would be very impractical due to the thickness of ice needed.
Though fake fish could have been used for the display and would have been better for sanitation reasons.
So they froze a bunch of dead fish. Idiots making a big deal out of nothing. They need to… chill out.
It’s not nothing, those are fish.
Yes,go to supermarket ,freezer meat section an CRY!!
All dead cut in pieces frozen on ice!!
Barbaric nipponic people!!
Good G@D!! imagine world full of leftards..
no, those are liberal arts students and the usual rejects.
so the “backbone” of leftist youth, f♥♥k them, they are the worst of the worst, even KKK has more dignity
Animal rights activists are a fucking joke.
people eating tasty animals
Makes no sense. People usually go to aquariums to see live fish swim in a simulated natural environment.
Reminds me of a fad in the US years ago where girls wore high heels with tiny live gold fish swimming around in the heels. Don’t know what they did when the fish died, throw the shoes out or watch them decay?
Gross.
Are you sure those were live? I remember those and was pretty sure they just had toy fish in them.
You could put anything in them, and people did indeed put live fish in them.
Remember seeing those heels in a old cartoon once. Never thought people actually did that.
What? You’ve got to be shitting me, someone seriously made something like that? Even worse, people bought it? Dam son.
They made empty feels you could fill with whatever you wanted, people then filled them with things and fish became very popular for a few months. Few fish survived the night out, and many times the shoes cracked to leave the fish suffocating, or worse flopping on the dance floor, so it took a very short period before animal rights outrage overtook fashion.
Realistically fake fish would have made for a better attraction…