PETA upset about cruelty to

PETA upset about cruelty to… cockroaches. What’s next for PETA after this? Lobbying for minimum wages for dung beetles? Protests against the solitary confinement of smallpox viruses?

J.P. Travis: Born and raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1976 graduate of University of Michigan, father, grandfather, husband, founder and CEO of Travelyn Publishing (http://www.travelynpublishing.com/), and passionate anti-government believer in individual liberty.

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        • Almost as bad as the scorpions from the summer I spent in Arizona in the early 80s? Rule #1) stuff your socks in your shoes when you take them off for the night. #1a) always turn them upside down and tap them on the floor anyway before inserting foot the next day.

          • Exactly. I may have told this story here. When I first married, we just spent a week at oneof our local lakes for a honeymoon. The first morning I am going through the shoe thing and my innocent spouse ( a city boy and not real bright to begin with) asked what I was doing. I explained, he exploded laughing and walked away. @ or # days later we found a roughly 6" scorpion in our kitchen sink. Next morning he was thumping shoes with the best of them!

        • HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! For REAL! And most apartmets doregular exterminating and they still scuttle about. I am not talikin "house roaches." I am talking those big 3 inch buggers that fly in your face! It never gets cold enough to kill them. Of course, I have no doubt they could make it fine in Antarctica. If you live in a house in an older neighborhood, keep a shoe. some spray, a blowtorch, whatever handy, because you WILL have roaches, even if your house looks like an operating suite! HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

          • Maybe you could co-opt their loyalties. Train some of the bigger cockroaches to kill and chase off the rest of the cockroaches in return for all they can eat. Your own personal army of cockroaches - kind of like the TSA.

          • Nope. This is a deal breaker. I have had some really bad experiences with them and I refuse to see them as individuals with differing opinions than the other. They all need to die. We have other bugs to take care of refuse!

    • This and another I saw (described as a nusery rhyme) both changed the words and the context of the original song. The Cucaracha was Emilio Zapata, I believe. One of 2 founders of the Mexican Revolution n the early 20th century. The original translates to : THe cockroach, the cockroach, cannot move or travel becausehe has no dope to smole. I remember them changing it in my sister's cjoll text to he can't travel because he has no gasoline to burn.

      • I've seen another version where the cucaracha gets nowhere because it has lost a hind leg and goes in circles or something like that. I can see where the song lives on through many versions just because of the rhythm and beat.

  • If ones of these pampered dipshits had ever seen a full scale cockroach infestation, I'd bet they'd be calling the exterminator. So what's next, banning DEET because mosquitoes have feelings too?

  • This is the same organization that puts down lots of animals that they claim to be saving...Hypocrites and bullshit artists..

    My favorite Peta Story, Circus comes to town, Of course PETA is there video taping in case someone punches out an elephant or some other silly shit, they line both sides of the walkway where they bring in the animals, one male tiger decided to "mark" his territory and from about 20 feet away sprayed a PETA member full on in the face..I laughed so hard I cried...I thought I was going to puke...thats karma.....

    • I laughed like that when my younger daughter was butted by a baby goat at the petting zoo. Shows you what kind of parent I was.

      • When I wasin 8th grade, we went on a class trip to Madison Square Garden to see Ringling Bros, Barnum and Baily Circus.
        While we were walking around in the animal viewing area, a tiger pulled the same move on one of my classmates, but only got him on his jacket.
        The entire class was in hysterics.

        • One dark and lonely night, in Victorville, CA, the next door neighbor kid and I were sitting in the back of an old Ford pickup. Our respective male parental units were in the bar drinking. Looking into the field across the highway, I saw a camel tied to a real estate sign. Don't ask why, I don't know.

          We walked across the highway to get a closer look. When were close enough to realize it was a real camel, not part of the sign, it decided we were real children, and it obviously liked to spit on real children. What a freakin' mess!

  • They can't even get their facts straight. Invertebrates can't feel pain. Hell, even fish can't feel pain. Their nerves aren't set up to carry the impulses. Which makes me wonder if membership in People for Extortion, Terrorism, and Arson requires a mandatory brain transplant with a cockroach.

    • Would you truly lower the cockroaches I.Q. that way?
      I mean, the little critters already have enough problems, what with being...well....cockroaches and all.

      Okay, just perused the article, and it actually sounds like a valid idea.
      Backyard Brains has developed a Kickstarter project, the RoboRoach, that allows one to cut live cockroaches and implant electrodes to control the insects’ movements. One hundred and eighty three people have pledged $12,339 — exceeding the $10,000 goal to fund the project.

      It’s like a remote-controlled car in the body of a live bug, the game “Operation” writ large. But the creators want it to be taken seriously, with Greg Gage saying his product advances the study of neural circuits, allowing students to make scientific discoveries.

      “Twenty percent of the world will have a neurological disorder with no known cure and so what we are trying to do is get kids interested in neuro-science at an early age and and we can actually capture those kids and turn them into neuro-scientists and actually help us cure these diseases,” said Gag

      So maybe they should use something with even less use to this world than cockroaches. I would suggest P.E.T.A. members.

      • "“Twenty percent of the world will have a neurological disorder with no known cure and so what we are trying to do is get kids interested in neuro-science at an early age and and we can actually capture those kids and turn them into neuro-scientists and actually help us cure these diseases,” said Gag" --- I'd rather have my kids develop an interest in neuro-science some other way. I have a feeling James Holmes would have loved this idea.

        • I see what you did there. You're not suggesting young Jimmie, between instances of chronic bed-wetting and playing with matches, would progress from roaches to say... birds and squirrels are you? Then maybe the family cat and neighborhood dogs disappearing? And ultimately to his slaughtering a bunch of innocent people? It's just a "teachable science moment". ;)

  • Who are the biggest loons in this story? The people who want to make a cyber-cockroach or PETA protesting cruelty to cockroaches? A dead heat, I think.

      • Cockroaches are ALREADY nearly indestructible. They can live for a week with no head, survive outrageous temperature and humidity ranges, and anyone who has ever seen one and tried to kill it can attest to the fact that even if you hear a "craack" w when you lift your foot they run like hell. I think they are directly descended, with minimal evoultion from somewhere around the time alligators and crocs showed up, Other living dinosaurs.

        • They might be able to live a week with no head, but they aren't even close to Biden's world record.

          They might be able to live a week with no head, but do they enjoy themselves?

          They might be able to live a week with no head, but does the head live a week with no body?

          They might be able to live a week with no head, but who's counting?

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