The group PETA, People Enjoying Tasty Animals is sending the White House a Katcha Bug Humane Bug Catcher. It allows for a house fly to be caught and then released outside. Why would anyone not want to kill a fly? Besides being a pest they are nasty.
PETA Likes House Flies
PETA says they support compassion even for the smallest sympathetic animals. Hey PETA here are the facts on house flies. They visit dumps, sewers and garbage heaps, feeding on fecal matter, discharges from wounds and sores, sputum, and all sorts of moist, decaying matter such as spoiled fish, eggs and meat. Flies regurgitate and excrete wherever they House flies are suspected of transmitting at least 65 diseases to humans.
Female house flies deposit their eggs in decaying organic matter such as garbage and human and animal excrement. Horse manure is the preferred breeding medium. Each female deposits about 100-150 eggs on appropriate food which hatch in a day or two into worm-like creatures called maggots.
Fly maggots feed on the material in which they have hatched (Garbage and Poop). Following three larval molts, mature larvae stop feeding and burrow into drier surrounding areas, where they pupate. The pupa is a chestnut-brown, oval object within which the larva changes into an adult house fly.
Adults mate within one to two days after emerging from their pupal cases. The life cycle from egg to adult can be completed in as little as one week, but typically takes three weeks. House fly adults normally live about two and a half weeks during the summer, but they can survive up to three months at lower temperatures.
They pass these diseases on to humans. Bacterial diseases: Typhoid, cholera, dysentery, pyogenic (bacterial infections that makes pus) cocci.( which include Staphylococci, some types of food poisoning, urinary tract infections, toxic shock syndrome, gonorrhea and some forms of meningitis, throat infections, pneumonias and sinusitis and E. coli.
They are neither animal nor sympathetic. They are a health hazard and should be killed. They serve no useful purpose kind of like PETA.
June 18th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
The flies seem to be thick and fast in the White House. [edited out]
Now, really Hondo, was that comment necessary?
[editors note: no, it was NOT necessary]
June 18th, 2009 at 8:14 pm
Here’s the truth about PETA — they are outraged about one fly, but PETA has been caught euthanizing cats and dogs, then throwing the bodies in dumpsters.
In 2005, the bodies of several cats and dogs were being thrown in a dumpsters at a shopping mall every week. An investigation found that PETA was collecting the animals from shelters. PETA would tell the shelter owners that they would try to find homes for the animals, but instead they were euthanized the very same day, then thrown into dumpsters. One veterinarian said he turned over a litter of perfectly healthy adoptable kittens to PETA, and they were found in a dumpster the same day.
Please check out these websites, or just Google PETA and dumpster for lots of info:
http://www.thisistrue.com/peta.html
http://www.petakillsanimals.com
June 19th, 2009 at 4:33 am
At least the fly found peace on Twitter: http://twitter.com/aflyobamakilled