PETA wants to give the gift of infertility
Human overpopulation is crowding out animal life on the planet, and dog and cat overpopulation is creating a euthanasia crisis that is a crying shame….
Disappearing wilderness, vanishing water resources, and pollution is the price that future generations will pay for more human births, while losing their lives is the price that millions of homeless dogs and cats pay when guardians neglect to ‘fix’ their companion animals…. The best way to combat the companion-animal overpopulation crisis is to have your cat or dog neutered.
And with a global population of almost 7 billion humans, more of our species could use a (voluntary) snip too.
~PETA, in a statement introducing their new “competition” to win a free vasectomy (for having your pet neutered or spayed) during National Infertility Awareness Week, as quoted by the NZ Herald, April 6
Both my fat, lazy cats are “fixed,” and I don’t have problem with voluntary sterilization, but to run this ad during National Infertility Awareness Week is in terrible taste, to say the least.
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Well, to the advantage of those of us who hold marriage and the marital act as sacred (and thus, reproduce) it is funny to watch loonies literally cause their own extinction. Pretty soon, there won’t be any pro-abortion PETA nuts anymore, since they will have contracepted themselves out of existence.
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You have GOT to be kidding me! Win a free vasectomy? How about win a free mutilation of my small intestines? I would love the chance to win the privilege of not having to pay someone to wreck part of my body, as I just shelled out $300 last week to have someone take a baseball bat to my kneecaps.
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Ouch Bobby…baseball to the kneecaps? Are you okay?
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Oh of course MIT, because proper function is determined solely by my subjective desires. If that’s what I wanted, then that is what is “the good.”
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By their logic, they should be thrilled that Japan had their population mauled by the tsunami.
And that Haiti’s earthquake last year voluntarily snipped them.
In fact, just about any disaster wiping out humans should be worthy of a PETA Party!
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Go right ahead PETA members, snip away at yourselves. I’ll see how that works for you and decide if it’s a choice I want to make for myself.
If we reduce the human population, who will feed the domesticated animals?
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That ad doesn’t make any sense.
1. Human overpopulation can damage the planet.
2. Humans are overpopulated.
3. Therefore, spay and neuter animals!
How did they get to the conclusion from the premises?
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We can, with more efficient distribution of food and resources, sustain an even bigger human population. It’s work, it’s harder than snuffing out babies or snipping reproductive organs, but there’s no reason we can’t do a better job of taking good, positive care of humans and animals.
God pointed Abraham to the stars and said, “Just so shall your descendants be.” He didn’t say, “see those stars? Too many, I’m going to snuff a bunch out so the sky isn’t so crowded.” And speaking of stars, let’s re-energize our space program!! Fictional characters shouldn’t be the only ones who get to colonize Mars.
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I would like to point out that some men need a vasectomy for health purposes, such as testicular cancer. Insurance companies are not always willing to pay for cancer treatments, including surgeries that could cure them. Winning this competition could be a good thing for someone who does not have the money for such a surgery.
Yes, it is wrong to insist that people just to lessen the human population, especially when the world’s fertility rate is below the replacement level. It’s also wrong to tell someone that they need a vasectomy for the same reason. However, not all vasectomies fall under the contraceptive mentality, and I hope that it is one of the men that actually need it that win this competition.
Oh, and the reason I’m so much for letting men get vasectomies for health reasons is because my dad had one that healed him of testicular cancer.
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You are confused, Amy. Vasectomy and castration are two different things. Vasectomy is the mutilation of the vans defrens for the SOLE purpose of sterilization. Castration is the removal of testes because they are diseased. Removing the testes, causes infertility as an unfortunate side effect. In a vasectomy, infertility is the only and intended affect.
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Which is better, a man getting a vasectomy or a female getting a fetus ripped out of her body? If a man can’t impregnate, he can’t cause a pregnancy that will be aborted.
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I think that this entire ad is completely appauling and should have NOT been released during Infertility week alone and definitely NOT in honor of it. Here we go again with PETA wanting to be in the spot light. They knew that the comment would spark controversy and would cause attention… be it negative or positive… to be on them. People, we are missing the boat here. Infertility week is in honor of men and women who are INFERTILE. Unable to concieve on their own. The entire abortion issue or cancer issue has NOTHING to do with Infertility. Denise…. an infertile couple would not have to worry about having an abortion… or being impregnated because…… OH.. Guess what…. they are INFERTILE! Jacqueline… thank you for explaining the difference for Amy about the two. Infertility week is about educating and causing awareness. It is NOT intended to make a mokery or a joke about men and women’s INABILITY to conceive! Maybe if we can put things into proper perspective and try to be a little more understanding as a Race ( THE HUMAN RACE) we would be able to understand the impact that INFERTILITY has on tons of couples but male and female and all races, creeds and nationalities!
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