Reply #52: I have a low opinion of PETA generally

[imenja]

For years it seemed that they cared only for furry cute animals that were made into furs. Lately there was the whole thing about it being cruel to eat fish. Well I'd like to start a protection organization for fruits and vegetables. They are life too. Think of all the cruelty involved when we go to our gardens to pick tomatoes or basil. It's an outrageous violation of morality.

Now doesn't that seem absurd? Why is it different for fish?

I don't wish any ill will toward mice, but if rodents infest a house or building they have to be dealt with. Maybe one shouldn't use glue traps, but the fact are they are going to be killed anyway. If they don't want that, they need to find somewhere else to live. It's not something I can get exercised about, and I don't understand anyone making it a priority. Frankly, I think it makes them look ridiculous and undermines the credibility of their organization, assuming they have any.

To me they are fundamentally bourgeois--the product of a society of plenty that has little regard for class oppression or human life
(witness gun violence, war, and the death penalty) yet places a high premium on denying ourselves that plenty (meat, etc..) I think of vegetarians I know who turned their noses up at meat in the houses of poor Brazilians. Rightly or wrongly, I associate them with the PETA crowd, especially after the press junket for fish.