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Following the Junior's mousecake incident, PETA has sent an urgent open letter to owner Alan Rosen, asking that he only use humane, non-lethal rodent control (like this cute house). Yet there's no word of a letter to Delta after the airline was infiltrated by a furry friend earlier this week!
The organization points out that "using lethal traps or poisons to kill mice and other small animals is not only cruel but also ineffective because as long as conditions remain inviting, other animals will simply move in to replace those who are killed." Plus, those glue traps are just disturbing, even for the humans who have to handle them.
The full letter is after the jump, but we loved this Disney-esque section, which notes that mice "communicate with each other, play together, wrestle, and love sleeping curled up together. They are also good parents," and sometimes help Cinderella hem her ball gowns.
Dear Mr. Rosen,I am writing on behalf of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and our more than 2 million members and supporters—including thousands in New York—about the mice who were recently photographed in your store's display case. We heard that you chose to call an exterminator to remove the mice and hope that you will consider a nonlethal way to keep these intelligent, social animals—who feel pain and fear just like cats and dogs do—outside your store in the future.
Mice are fastidiously clean animals, grooming themselves several times a day. In fact, mice are less likely than dogs or cats to catch and transmit parasites and viruses. They are highly social animals—they communicate with each other at high-frequency sounds that you can't hear without instrumentation, play together, wrestle, and love sleeping curled up together. They are also good parents, and female mice with litters will vigorously defend their nests and young.
Lethal methods such as glue traps, poisons, fumigants, and tracking powders are horribly cruel and toxic. They don't work and can actually make the problem worse. As animals are killed or removed from the area, more will move in to occupy the niche and use available resources. The temporary spike in the food supply will result in accelerated breeding—and more animals. You'll have a vicious killing cycle in which many animals will suffer and die needlessly. The only long-term way to control wildlife populations is by maintaining clean, sanitary conditions and plugging holes or cracks through which mice might enter a building.
If mice do get into your building again, please consider using the humane box-type traps that I will be sending via mail shortly. These traps are made from plastic and have a spring-release trap door at one end that closes behind the animal once he or she enters the trap. The trap can then be taken outside so that the animal can be released. When using these, be sure to check them every hour, because rodents have a high rate of metabolism and quickly become thirsty when they are frightened.
Mice are truly complex, unique, social individuals with the capacity to experience a wide range of emotions. They deserve our respect, compassion, and protection. We hope that you will use the humane mouse traps if any other mice decide to pay a visit to nibble on your famous treats. Please contact me at 757-962-8322 or TracyR@peta.org if you have any questions. Thank you for your consideration.
Sincerely,
Tracy Reiman
Executive Vice President
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Mice are better parents than a lot of humans.
And what do we do with that information? Glue-traps for humans who are eating in Junior's?
Don't mice eat their babies?
33-year-old Texas woman who murdered her infant son and then ate bits of his brain and a few toes
http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2009/08/01/otty_sanchez/
Gee, thanks for that!
Certainly are better than you, has your brain been reduced to that of a rat? What the fuck is wrong with you?
On a side note, can you please change your name to felixthetroll2?
It's insulting to cats.
Could you rotate that photo 90 degrees to the right please so I don't have to hurt my neck?
PETA actually has a good point for once. Traps address a symptom, not the root problem.
Can't get enough of PETAs willingness to objectify women (actual sentient creatures, believe it or not!) & more specifically violence against women, in order to save the lives of mice. Very classy, those folks. Wait, the opposite of that.
as if you really care about women and these women chose to pose for a good cause. It is you who is objectifying them perhaps. What I see is a beautiful women trapped on a glue trap. She is not dancing on a pose and prostituting her body to sell corporate poison. She is doing so to end cruelty. It is a way for people to relate to the poor mouse in that same circumstance.
She is not dancing on a POLE and prostituting her body to sell corporate poison. She is doing so to end cruelty. It is a way for people to relate to the poor mouse in that same circumstance.
And she needs to be wearing a bikini to achieve this effect, why?
why such a prude? It is a bikini. I seen worst everyday walking the streets with all the cleavage and ass cracks out there. What bother you perhaps is that Peta is against animal cruelty. I see so much nudity and women posing in degrading matters to sell corporate poison and yet no complains except when Peta has a campaign with a pretty girl.
Listen up, idget: Mordicai made a legitimate point. It's rather hypocritical to objectify women while at the same time preaching equal treatment for animals. Just because someone challenges this notion and your moronic "thoughts", doesn't mean that we support animal cruelty. What color is the sky in your world?
For the record, I'm not at all offended by a woman in a bikini, or a totally nude woman or man, for that matter. Then again, I don't go around acting like some self-righteous asshole who expects the rest of society to act and think exactly as I do.
Lastly, and I can't even believe I'm wasting time by asking this, but where did you receive your education? That post was barely intelligible.
See also:
http://contexts.org/socimages/2008/06/14/peta-women-as-meat-demonstration/
& enjoy.
PETA is just sparing Juniors the terrible irony of becoming Mauschwitz.
Making light of the Holocaust? Please DIAF.
Just by looking at your handle I can tell that you are a real jerk.
Talk about the mother of mixed messages.
On one hand, Peta says 'Don't use glue traps'.
On the other, they release an image that a) promotes the effectiveness of glue traps by hinting that they can stop a human and b) using marketing tactic that beer and other manufacturers have been using for decades to promote their product (See, you can catch a hot, bikini-clad woman with glue traps!).
On the topic of rodents in this city, Peta finally makes an intelligent point. I wish they would apply their "Don't just patch the problem, fix the cause" attitude to the other issues they rally against.
On the other, they release an image that a) promotes the effectiveness of glue traps by hinting that they can stop a human" wth????? It shows the cruelty of glue traps and the painful long death. HOLY MOLY.
Only an idiot would think he can caught a babe with a glue trap. it shows that most people would empathize with a pretty young girl suffering on a trap. IT grabs attention. Do you want her to wear a Burka?? She looks pretty.
Glue Traps Work.
There I fixed it.
Dear Felix,
Please leave civilization and go live in the woods with your beloved animals. It would be great if you would try to live with cougars or coyotes or bears or hyenas or some other type of predator.
Also, please quit using computers as they are all built upon the backs of poor animals causing undue harm and unbearable pain to them. Each computer kills thousands of dust mites per minute. They are deadly to everything you hold dear. Cease and desist now.
Signed,
All of us
Who is "All of us"? Do you really think you speak of "all of us" or do you speak for the typical juvenile trolls who superficially feel better by abusing animals??? Please join civilization. Read a book on humane education or go to a sanctuary and learn to have compassion. Otherwise I feel sorry for any being that has contact with you. Seriously, you are disgusting.
I'm glad you find me disgusting. It proves to me that you have NO idea who you are talking to or the amount of compassion that I give daily to those like yourself whose very existence is detrimental to the rest of us. If we were all wild animals, as you would like us to be, the rest of us would have turned on you, maiming you so that whatever predator was lying in wait, would take you, the weakest and the worst.
You can continue to play semantics with me if you want, but your time is better spent actually trying to save these animals you claim to love, instead of trolling this board (and probably many others) in an attempt to make yourself feel better than humanity. The rest of us will continue to make ourselves feel better just by being humans, knowing that we give compassion where it is due and we make tough decisions that lower animals cannot.
HowBoutDemApples?
Mice do in fact "communicate with each other, play together, wrestle, and love sleeping curled up together. They are also good parents," And a paper published in the prestigious journal, Science in 2006 showed that mice feel empathy for other mice (http://www.the-scientist.com/news/display/23764/). It's not at all Disney-esque or sentimental to make these claims. It's good science! Mice are sentient beings who feel a wide range of emotions and also feel the pain of other mice, and they're not even protected from horrific research in the U.S. In fact, the federal Animal Welfare Act doesn't consider them to be animals. Go check it out. If you wouldn't do something (horrific) to a dog, you shouldn't do it to a mouse.
I don't mind non-lethal traps -- they're a good idea, if they work (I don't know if they do). But checking them every hour is a bit much -- even when PETA tries to make a legitimate argument, it inevitably veers into "crazy."
But...I mean, if it is a concern, why not just put a dish of water in the trap for the mouse? Look, this is all batshit crazy on some level -- but if PETA's position is that you can't let the mouse get thirsty...design a trap that can hold drinking water.
The trap should also include some exercise equipment because you wouldn't want the mice getting leg cramps. Also a buffet of different mice food should also be in the trap. Not to metion a little window so the mice can look out and not get bored.
The mouse works harder than your fraudulent MTA worker comp ass living off the taxpayers. You are nothing but a bitch living off my paycheck. I support your dumb ass.
Please Gothamist, ban felixtherat2. He is sucking the life out of these posts...
Whoops–sorry she is sucking the life out of these posts
ban your fat bitter ass.
go shovel some horseshit you fucking troll
ugh, PETA. Fuck.off. already.
I think PETA's heart is in the right place. unfortunately they use a gimmick like scantily-clad women to draw attention to their cause. well, whatever gets the job done I suppose.
I'm so glad they finally made glue traps big enough for those annoying PETA people! Where can I buy those??
Please be nice to roaches and other vermin as well. They have children of their own and complex emotional states.
EXACTLY. thanks!!!
+1. Thank you.
Asshole
Advocacy Group Decries PETA's Inhumane Treatment Of Women
Glue traps are a terrible idea. Using exploitative images of women in an attempt to bring about compassion for this or ~any~ other issue is also a bad idea. A really bad idea. The fact that this is even an issue speaks to how sexist our society still is.
Sexism, racism, and speciesism stem from the same place. They all use the "other" as a means to an end. They all turn a sentient being into a "thing" to be exploited, abused and used for the benefit of another.
Many animal advocates are appalled at Peta's insistence of using sexism to try and sell compassion for animals.
The message of taking the moral interests of other animals seriously is a social justice issue. I can't think of too many other social justice movements that rely on such nonsense to get their message out.
http://www.greenisthenewred.com/blog/foa-protest-peta/513/
if you can catch girls in bikinis, then im all for these glue traps
Friends of Animals (FOA) likes to position themselves as an abolitionist organization working in defense of animal rights.
There’s a reason that there is no negative mention of FOA on the website of the corporate-front group Center for Consumer Freedom: FOA is no threat.
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However, rather than proactively struggle for liberation, it seems they’d rather waste time and money criticizing others
Friends of Animals (FOA) likes to position themselves as an abolitionist organization working in defense of animal rights.
However, rather than proactively struggle for liberation, it seems they’d rather waste time and money criticizing others.
There’s a reason that there is no negative mention of FOA on the website of the corporate-front group Center for Consumer Freedom: FOA is no threat.
Just think how animals are being treated and maybe you will stop concentrating on how YOU feel and concentrate more on how the innocent animals feel and are treated