# Another PETA rant **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 18, 2009, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-peta-rant/500172 "2009-06-18T14:21:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-peta-rant/500172/21 "2009-06-19T13:22:35Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > Thankfully I think most people have more sense than that. Locally our Humane Society hosts an annual pet walk where thousands of people show up and thousands of dollars are raised [(8,000 people raised over $1 million this year)](http://events.animalhumanesociety.org/site/TR?fr_id=1080&pg=entry). > I don’t know of a single soul who has given a dime to PETA. That does make me wonder though, WHERE does PETA get its money? As you mentioned organizations like the Humane Society and SPCA have a far wider donor base. Does PETA get the bulk of its money from rich celebrities sympathetic to their cause? Merchandising? Or maybe it just doesn’t have that much money at all, and what little it does have, it spends on advertising? ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-peta-rant/500172/22 "2009-06-19T13:49:51Z")
That’s pathetic. [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housefly#Housefly_as_a_vector_of_disease) > [@](#): > > Housefly as a vector of disease > Mechanical transmission of organisms on its hairs, mouthparts, vomitus and feces: > parasitic diseases: Cysts of protozoa e.g. Entamoeba histolytica, Giardia lamblia and eggs of helminths e.g.:Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuros trichura, Haemenolypes nana, Enterobius vermicularis. > bacterial diseases: Typhoid, cholera, dysentery, pyogenic cocci…etc. House flies have been demonstrated to be vectors of Campylobacter and E. coli O157:H7 using PCR [6]. House flies can be monitored for bacterial pathogens using filter paper spot cards and PCR [7] > Viruses: Enteroviruses: Poliomyelitis, infective hepatitis (A & E)..etc ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-peta-rant/500172/23 "2009-06-19T14:37:12Z")
Most of the time PETA’s antics make me want to go out and hurt animals just to spite them. I have to admit, though, that was a good hit the President landed. Very Daniel-san. note to self: Do not play Bloody Knuckles with Obama, Will lose. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-peta-rant/500172/24 "2009-06-19T14:54:31Z")
_Won’t someone think of the vermin!_ ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-peta-rant/500172/25 "2009-06-19T15:49:49Z")
Wonder what PETA thinks of predators in the wild killing other animals, or eating the prey while they’re still half-alive? What about a spider paralysing it’s prey and feeding on it? Killing is killing ain’t it? ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-peta-rant/500172/26 "2009-06-19T16:25:36Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > Wonder what PETA thinks of predators in the wild killing other animals, or eating the prey while they’re still half-alive? What about a spider paralysing it’s prey and feeding on it? Killing is killing ain’t it? Well, that’s the rub, isn’t it? Applying human ethics to animals, who have no human ethics of their own, is puzzling. They’re really the People for the Ethical Treatment of Unethical Animals. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Kimmy\_Gibbler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Kimmy\_Gibbler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimmy_Gibbler)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-peta-rant/500172/27 "2009-06-19T16:27:40Z")
> [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](#): > > That’s pathetic. > > [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housefly#Housefly_as_a_vector_of_disease) Of course, so are human beings: Chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, herpes, super-herpes, HPV, HIV, pubic lice, hepatitis, &c. &c. Shall we eliminate these pests too? ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-peta-rant/500172/28 "2009-06-19T16:34:21Z")
I always wonder, what does PETA think of carnivorous animals? ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-peta-rant/500172/29 "2009-06-19T17:40:59Z")
What is PETA’s stance on pest control in general? Ants, roaches, bees inside the home let them live? Dog gets fleas so be it? Head lice? Bed bugs? Mosquitos? ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-peta-rant/500172/30 "2009-06-19T17:44:55Z")
PETA doesn’t want your respect, they just want to get you talking about them. And it worked. ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-peta-rant/500172/31 "2009-06-19T17:55:26Z")
> [@Kimmy\_Gibbler](#): > > Of course, so are human beings: > > Chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, herpes, super-herpes, HPV, HIV, pubic lice, hepatitis, &c. &c. > > Shall we eliminate these pests too? Yes, because houseflies are _just like_ people. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Joe\_Meager](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bb73d2/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Joe\_Meager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Joe_Meager)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-peta-rant/500172/32 "2009-06-19T18:52:38Z")
Gotta admit though… their advertising rocks. 8 out of 10 dentists surveyed think “I’d rather go naked…” beats “Got milk?” ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-peta-rant/500172/33 "2009-06-19T18:59:31Z")
> [@Kimmy\_Gibbler](#): > > Of course, so are human beings: > > Chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, herpes, super-herpes, HPV, HIV, pubic lice, hepatitis, &c. &c. > > Shall we eliminate these pests too? Only the ones which annoy me. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-peta-rant/500172/34 "2009-06-19T19:01:14Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > Wonder what PETA thinks of predators in the wild killing other animals, or eating the prey while they’re still half-alive? What about a spider paralysing it’s prey and feeding on it? Killing is killing ain’t it? Well, see, animals are animals, they are _supposed to_ act that way. People are supposed to be above all that. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-peta-rant/500172/35 "2009-06-19T19:07:02Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > Dog gets fleas so be it? People who have dogs and cats are the modern day slave owners! ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-peta-rant/500172/36 "2009-06-19T19:34:54Z")
> [@Kimmy\_Gibbler](#): > > Of course, so are human beings: > > Chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, herpes, super-herpes, HPV, HIV, pubic lice, hepatitis, &c. &c. > > Shall we eliminate these pests too? Oh, no. PETA’s sympathy to animals goes right down to single celled organizms, or right on down to viruses. Childhood immunizations are a huge extemination program run by the government with the express purpose of killing trillions of helpless little… er, lifelike beings whose only crime is causing the deaths of millions of humans. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-peta-rant/500172/37 "2009-06-19T21:00:13Z")
> [@tr0psn4j](#): > > People who have dogs and cats are the modern day slave owners! That’s the bit that really makes me go 😕. I mean, if your were to ask my cat if she’d rather be warm and fat and pampered in my room, or scrounging outside in some rainy alleyway and infested with fleas, I think I know what she’d choose. So why does PETA prefer her to be in the alleyway? ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-peta-rant/500172/38 "2009-06-19T21:16:55Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Oh, no. PETA’s sympathy to animals goes right down to single celled organizms, or right on down to viruses. > > Childhood immunizations are a huge extemination program run by the government with the express purpose of killing trillions of helpless little… er, lifelike beings whose only crime is causing the deaths of millions of humans. But E. coli have children too! And they’re more closely related to them than we are to our children. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-peta-rant/500172/39 "2009-06-19T21:17:58Z")
> [@tr0psn4j](#): > > People who have dogs and cats are the modern day slave owners! Actually, I think dogs and cats are the modern slave owners - the slaves being the people who “own” the dogs and cats. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-peta-rant/500172/40 "2009-06-19T21:18:16Z")
I’m curious how my fellow PETA haters feel about the [Hohenwald](http://www.tappedintoelephants.com/asp/index.php)elephant sanctuary, where they go to die, to the [Riddle](http://www.elephantsanctuary.org/default2.asp) elephant sanctuary where they go to be studied, seen, and live out their lives. Hohenwald has lots of money, presumably from PETA types and Riddle’s doesn’t. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-peta-rant/500172.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-peta-rant/500172.md?page=3)