Yea? No?

No.

*Is totally not biased simply because his hometown contains the world's best zoo, namely the San Diego Zoo*

Yes.

I think it's pretty ****ed up to cage animals for our amusement and they have to spend all their days in the same place doing the same thing until they die from complications from the processed food they are fed and lack of exercise, but they cannot be released into the while now can they?

Everyone has different morals so you'll probably get different answers.

IMO, they are not wrong. Just as long as they're taken care of and all.

well funded and maintained zoos are fine. crummy animal prisons are not. thumbs up for the san diego zoo, those animals live better than i do from everything i saw.

Well no, we don't really have different morals. It's just what we THINK is moral.

How aren't they wrong? They are taking animals out of their natural habitat to live in a cage.

The amount of smiles those animals bring to me outweighs how much I care about that. Just as long as they are well taken care of.

So for your amusement? So me locking up a bunch of mentally challenged kids in a cage for my amusement is morally acceptable, as long as I take care of them?

I believe there are sanctioned rules in place to prevent things like this from happening. Most zoos provide mentally and physically stimulating activities for animals to access their food [the same way they would need to in the wild] and must follow guidelines for pen-sizes and habitats for animals to allow for adequate exercise area.

I also believe a significant subset of zoo animals are rescued because of injuries, disabilities, etc. or bred in captivity, and thus would not survive in a natural setting.