PETA for Pesticides?
Gardeners can fight pests while remaining organic by using beneficial insects to eat harmful bugs.
The fly in this ointment is that one of PETA’s recent campaigns is to treat the sale of common predator bugs the same as cows in the slaughterhouse or dogs from the pet store.
Don’t we get enough puritanism from the right? I suppose PETA would prefer non-commercial methods of bringing in good bugs, but how would that be better? Non-profits would build air conditioned tiny packing boxes with teeny satellite TVs for the critters to watch when they’re shipped? Guess I won’t be selling any more butterfly wing coats from now on.
The next thing we’ll have to feel guilty about is the exploitation of plants. They have feelings, you know. Check out Oral Sadism and the Vegetarian Personality
Animal loving gardeners will just have to use insecticide chemicals instead. Mmm, I love the smell of organophosphates in the morning.
[Update: As noted in another post today, Neil sent the following interesting link]:
http://www.petakillsanimals.com
