PETA Wants to Protect Even the Peskiest of Pests

June 18th, 2009

One of my favorite sites to visit to catch up on news is Fark.com. People submit headlines of news from all around the world and tag them with various tags such as Strange, Obvious, Sad, Florida, Dumbass, etc. I prefer to skip to the Dumbass, Florida and Asinine tags first because they usually cause me to groan and slap my forehead upon reading about some of the dumb stuff people do. This article about PETA and a presidential flyswat from the Huffington Post earned an Asinine tag.

According to the article, PETA was apparently not happy when President Obama swatted a fly during a television interview for CNBC. The PETA spokesman, Bruce Friedrich, said in the article, “swatting a fly on TV indicates he’s not perfect, and we’re happy to say that we wish he hadn’t.” Oh, brother, give me a break. What next, mosquitos? They even sent him humane bug trap that will allow him to catch flies inside and release them outside.

I eat meat. Pork, beef, venison, and seafood all make a great meal for me. I believe that God put the animals here to serve man and that He gave man dominion over the animals. I also believe God wants us to be good stewards with what He has given us, which means don’t waste it and to put it to good use. I am not against killing animals for human consumption, but I am against killing animals just for fun or out of cruelty. Notice, I said animals and not insects. Yes, insects are important to our ecosystem as well, and we shouldn’t just kill all the insects, but I don’t have a problem with killing flies and mosquitos if repelling them doesn’t work. In fact, I have a handy little hand-held bug zapper that does the job quite well.