# PETA 'honours' National Infertility Awareness Week by offering a free vasectomy. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 7, 2011, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-honours-national-infertility-awareness-week-by-offering-a-free-vasectomy/577562 "2011-04-07T18:54:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![EmAnJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@EmAnJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmAnJ)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2011, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-honours-national-infertility-awareness-week-by-offering-a-free-vasectomy/577562/1 "2011-04-07T18:54:53Z")
Not that many people have respect for PETA in the first place, but I’d like to know what brilliant marketing mind came up with this latest campaign. PETA is promoting a contest during National Infertility Awareness Week wherein one lucky winner will receive a free vasectomy. Now I don’t have a problem with this campaign in and of itself (though I still think PETA certainly goes too far, too often), but to tie it to **National Infertility Awareness Week** , and especially do it in hounour of? This is like a slap in the face for people like me. I can’t even put in to words the anger I feel. Yeah, I’m going to send my husband out for a vasectomy, for fucks sake. We can’t even get pregnant as it is! They could have done this ANY other week. A few links: [Babble (blog).](http://blogs.babble.com/being-pregnant/2011/04/07/grand-prize-free-vasectomy-peta-angers-the-infertility-community/) [PETA campaign Facebook page.](http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150209811045250) [Press Release by RESOLVE condemning the campaign.](http://www.resolve.org/about/resolve-condemns-peta.pdf) [Petition, if you’re interested (includes more links).](http://www.change.org/petitions/tell-peta-infertility-is-not-a-joke-2#?opt_new=f&opt_fb=t) I know, sorry for the weak outrage, I’m just not great at this. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2011, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-honours-national-infertility-awareness-week-by-offering-a-free-vasectomy/577562/2 "2011-04-07T19:02:15Z")
They’re tactless assholes who do a lousy job helping their cause. After they compared the slaughter of chickens to the holocaust I stopped listening to them. [http://articles.cnn.com/2003-02-28/us/peta.holocaust\_1\_animal-rights-peta-web-site-holocaust-survivor?\_s=PM:US](http://articles.cnn.com/2003-02-28/us/peta.holocaust_1_animal-rights-peta-web-site-holocaust-survivor?_s=PM:US) Ignore them. Hugs on dealing with a serious medical issue. I hope you get pregnant soon. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2011, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-honours-national-infertility-awareness-week-by-offering-a-free-vasectomy/577562/3 "2011-04-07T19:19:30Z")
About a week ago, they suggested that San Francisco change the name of the Tenderloin District to the Tempeh District. :rolleyes: ETA: [Link](http://www.peta.org/mediacenter/news-releases/Tenderloin-District--Try--Tempeh-District---Says-PETA-.aspx) ---
**Author:** ![perfectparanoia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a5b964/32.png) [@perfectparanoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/perfectparanoia)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2011, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-honours-national-infertility-awareness-week-by-offering-a-free-vasectomy/577562/4 "2011-04-07T19:51:08Z")
See, if you just had Universal Health Care, your vasectomies would already be free and it would be one less thing for them to do to piss you off. \ ---
**Author:** ![EmAnJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@EmAnJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmAnJ)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2011, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-honours-national-infertility-awareness-week-by-offering-a-free-vasectomy/577562/5 "2011-04-07T19:54:01Z")
> [@perfectparanoia](#): > > See, if you just had Universal Health Care, your vasectomies would already be free and it would be one less thing for them to do to piss you off. > > \ I’m in Canada. This is outrage from afar. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2011, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-honours-national-infertility-awareness-week-by-offering-a-free-vasectomy/577562/6 "2011-04-07T20:25:32Z")
Since they really don’t care about people, they really don’t care about pissing people off. They’re Fred Phelps with slaughter on the brain instead of sodomy. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-honours-national-infertility-awareness-week-by-offering-a-free-vasectomy/577562/7 "2011-04-08T06:47:40Z")
I’ll do it, if it means they spend $300 so I don’t have to. Hmmm… Oh man this is such bullshit. They’re doing ONE guy. He must prove that they have had a dog or a cat neutered between March 29 and April 27, 2011. Mine’s already been fixed, so fuck them. This is like honoring the Holocaust with a BBQ and baking gingerbread men with Stars of David imprinted on them. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-honours-national-infertility-awareness-week-by-offering-a-free-vasectomy/577562/8 "2011-04-08T06:55:34Z")
> [@Mr.Moto](#): > > Since they really don’t care about people, they really don’t care about pissing people off. > > They’re Fred Phelps with slaughter on the brain instead of sodomy. I can just picture them at funerals with “God hates Meat” signs. ---
**Author:** ![Erdosain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/erdosain/32/7284_2.png) [@Erdosain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erdosain)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-honours-national-infertility-awareness-week-by-offering-a-free-vasectomy/577562/9 "2011-04-08T18:33:24Z")
It is especially tacky that the lucky winner has to have the procedure done at the vet’s office. It’s going to be a real bitch to get him in the car. It’s almost like he can sense what’s going to happen. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-honours-national-infertility-awareness-week-by-offering-a-free-vasectomy/577562/10 "2011-04-08T18:45:05Z")
The plastic cone around his neck will be especially embarassing. ---
**Author:** ![Erdosain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/erdosain/32/7284_2.png) [@Erdosain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erdosain)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-honours-national-infertility-awareness-week-by-offering-a-free-vasectomy/577562/11 "2011-04-08T18:56:06Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > The plastic cone around his neck will be especially embarassing. And the shaved fur. You don’t want him eating those stitches. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-honours-national-infertility-awareness-week-by-offering-a-free-vasectomy/577562/12 "2011-04-08T19:13:43Z")
PETA is all about publicity and not the actual activity they are promoting. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-honours-national-infertility-awareness-week-by-offering-a-free-vasectomy/577562/13 "2011-04-08T22:17:58Z")
> [@Erdosain](#): > > It is especially tacky that the lucky winner has to have the procedure done at the vet’s office. It’s going to be a real bitch to get him in the car. It’s almost like he can sense what’s going to happen. there are so few times when i actually laugh out loud. Thanks, I needed that.