Showing posts with label PETA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PETA. Show all posts

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Under the "Simply Ridiculous" heading...

"What's on your mind today, Mr. President?"
"Well, North Korea is threatening to nuke Hawaii, Iran is threatening to nuke Israel, the economy is in the tank, and PETA is on my case about swatting a fly."

from: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,527001,00.html

WASHINGTON — The group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants the flyswatter in chief to try taking a more humane attitude the next time he's bedeviled by a fly in the White House.
PETA is sending President Barack Obama a Katcha Bug Humane Bug Catcher, a device that allows users to trap a house fly and then release it outside.
"We support compassion even for the most curious, smallest and least sympathetic animals," PETA spokesman Bruce Friedrich said Wednesday. "We believe that people, where they can be compassionate, should be, for all animals."