PETA Says No More Fly-Killing, Sends Obama a Humane Fly Catcher

If we stop noticing them, they will go away. They seek publicity, and that’s what they get.

Are these people for real? What a bunch of worthless head cases with nothing better to do then to bother the president for killing a fly! I have an idea, send all the flies, rats, roaches, and lice over to the homes of every PETA member and see how fast they call an exterminator murder the poor helpless pest.

Seriously? We have far more important issues on our plates than someone swatting and killing a fly.

The PETA folks are laughing about the response to their comment. Too bad it’s not April 1st, it reminds me of the outrage that ensued on that date several years ago when Taco Bell issued a press release that the Liberty Bell had been renamed the Taco Liberty Bell. Cue outrage and #%@! them if they can’t take a joke.

It is my hope that Obama one day finds the courage to throw PETA in insane asylums like the crazies that they are.
I’ll treat some animals ethically. With ketchup, steak sauce, and worcestershire!
And by the way, PETA fanatics, I’m eating meat right now!

If this isn’t a society out of control, I don’t know what is… I wonder if the PETA folks ever looked into their radiator or on their windshields…jeez

The newscaster remarked that he had never seen a fly that persistent. The answer is quite simple. If you know what flies are normally drawn to, you have your answer.

However insignificant another creature’s life may seem to us, it is still that: life. Complex and beautiful life. I think PETA’s point here is that we should try to understand this instead of flippantly disposing of life because it suits our convenience, and because we believe our species is the pinnacle of creation.
“The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.” -Henry David Thoreau

Imagine how many innocent dust mites are MURDERED by PETA people.

PETA- Get a life, Grow up.
The life span of a fly is 15-30 days. They carry a TON of nasty disease, spread germs etc.
I can bet anyone of you at PETA have killed a ton of flies in you life.
Stop wasting time on you crap.
I guess you don’t even know what your job is.
I found this on YOUR website….and it says NOTHING of flies.
“PETA focuses its attention on the four areas in which the largest numbers of animals suffer the most intensely for the longest periods of time: on factory farms, in laboratories, in the clothing trade, and in the entertainment industry. We also work on a variety of other issues, including the cruel killing of beavers, birds and other “pests,” and the abuse of backyard dogs.”
You have to much time on your hands if you want to save flies. Get a life

I think PETA is bored.
They have gone off the deep end.
Its a stupid fly, get over it PETA

PETA completely undermines their legitimacy with this stupid, stupid, stupid garbage. Shut up PETA. I will never donate to PETA because of garbage like this, SPCA is a better charity.

Is this a joke?
I don’t like flies they are very dirty
creatures. What do we do now give them
a home and let them roam.

Sometimes I agree with PETA, but this is just absurd. In the circle of life, the flies get swatted.
That being said, I am astonished by how many people don’t realize that insects ARE animals. For anyone who paid any attention in middle school science, you should know that in the Classification of Living Things, you first break them into Kingdoms. People used to say “Animal, Vegetable, Mineral”, but today the more accurate 5 terms are Animal, Plant, Bacteria, Fungus & Protozoa. Insects fall in the Animal Kingdom. Come on, people, prove you are smarter than a 5th Grader.

PETA= People Eating Tasty Animals and i must say my double double from in&out was good. you go PETA. AND I ALSO ATE THE FLY THAT WAS ON THE FLOOR

Let’s hope roaches, head lice and bedbugs infest the homes of these PETA folks. That will be a wake up call.

I support PETA..but I wish they would take the opportunity to not berate someone on the insect issue. People are not going to be 100% kill free on this issue. When insects invade your space whether home or office…we have to make choices to draw the line. The Obamas do more on animal rights awareness than any previous presidential family. So, at this point PETA should really have let it go. We need to take it a step at a time. Let’s work on getting animals in factories under stricter protections and better execution techniques and with dignity. Let’s work on fighting the cruelty of extended pain and suffering! That is where the injustice lies!

Let’s just thank god we have a president that isn’t afraid to swat a fly. And let’s thank god peta has no say in how we handle the north Korea situation

Hes just warming up for Korea

If PETA didn’t say something, people would have said that they are hypocritical for not standing up for ALL animals. So despite their craziness, I think they made the right call here.

PETA, let me donate $1 so you can buy a clue.

I always thought there was something strange about this organization though they seem to support a good cause. (I also wonder if PETA understands the difference between an insect and a animal?) Apparently there is an ethical way to get rid of a fly. I wonder if PETA would be interested in helping my flea problem in a kind, loving and ethical manner?

GIVE ME A BREAK…PETA….BECAUSE OF ALL THE WET WEATHER WE HAVE HAD IN VA. I HAVE HUNDRED’S OF FLY’S YOU CAN RESCUE, BUGGING ME ON MY DECK…GET REAL

Shows how petty and pathetic Peta is. I am glad Obama killed that fly, but did so many in the media have to compare him to Jordan, Dirty Harry, or Mr. Miyagi? That was also pathetic.

I am an animal lover and I support 3 RESPECTABLE animal charities, and PETA is NOT one of them! They are just a joke! There are millions of animals being tortured and killed every day and they bi### about a fly???? I personally don’t kill anything, not even insects, but come on, how are people supposed to take you seriously when you start to stir problems when someone kills a fly??? Right now in China dogs are being killed by being beaten with clubs and stones because of a few cases of rabies and they are focusing on how to make Obama pay because he killed a fly?? Start doing something to help those dogs first and start acting like you give a dam# about animals for once! They are just a bunch of freaks looking for publicity and money so that they keep going around and do NOTHINg to help animals!!!

the fly had it coming

It was a fly , it was not a person, I go after flys if they buzz me , yeah I mean I get bug spray and get to work with them, Hey Peta what crime did I commit, solve this one Ha Ha I Killed a fly and there’s is nothing you can do about it losers.

Oh, by the way, what’s next PETA? Are you going to say we can’t swat mosquitoes? Yeah, right. I’m not going to let those bloodsuckers get any blood from me.

Do PETA members have full-time professional jobs? Obviously not, if they have time to fret over a fly! Really, they have gone over-the-edge this time and they are bordering on the line of ridiculousness.

Do PETA members have full-time professional jobs? Obviously not, if they have time to fret over a fly! Really, they have gone over-the-edge this time and they are bordering on the line of ridiculousness.

What are they, Brain Damaged???
I shouldn’t say that…comparing then to PETA would be an insult to those with that affliction…
The average housfly has a lifespan of what, a month? During said time, they reproduce thousands and thousands of times? Not to mention, carry illness and disease from whatever carcass or droppings they have just flown from?
If I ever had ANY respect for PETA, I would have lost it after this.

What a joke. PETA owes President Obama an apology and so do you for making this newsworthy. Many of us do our best to live and let live until the little pests persist in invading.

What a joke. PETA owes President Obama an apology and so do you for making this newsworthy. Many of us do our best to live and let live until the little pests persist in invading.

Hey Peta – a fly is a stupid insect that was born a maggot. It is not an animal. Stop it. Enough already. I’ll donate to PETA when they show more compassion over the aborted human babies.

PETA is really desperate for some press now aren’t they? Someone needs to tell them we’re laughing at them, not with them.

Flies are people, too.
Why doesn’t President Obama stand up to terrorists instead of proving how brave and strong he is by killing an innocent fly.
Buddha said, “A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.”

Peta members are nuts. It’s a damn insect. i agree with them when it comes to fighting for animals. When ppl killing animals to wear their fur as a fashion statement. They’re against that, I kind of see that as cruel too. But this situation with the fly is ridiculous. What are they gonna do if a fly gets caught in a spider web? Save the fly and give the spider a piece of tofu shaped like a fly.

PETA is nothing but a money hungry outfit who preys on people who care about animals. It doesn’t offer shelter to homeless animals. In June of 2005, PETA offered to take a few dogs from an animal shelter and rehome them. Then someone saw the PETA employees who picked up the dogs euthanize them in the back of their van and throw the carcasses in a trash bin.
PETA kills animals:

PETA had to say something, or they would lose some credibility actually. I’m sure they are not feeling as strongly about it, as you can tell from the laid-back approach of the article. PETA was obligated to say something, so they made a small remark, much unlike their tirades when they usually have a problem.

Only on the left . . .

Wow… this world is getting crazier each passing minute… Can’t people just do what they feel compelled to do, but just be quiet about it? (oh, and not hurt others in the process…) i.e. if you feel compelled to strap a bunch of C4 to yourself, go out in the middle of nowhere and detonate…
This isn’t news, it’s human egos bloviating out of some desperation to be relevant. Makes me want to just turn off this computer…

I have plenty of replacement flys in the back yard, were do you need them, you can have them.

Brooklynish: “Much worse is that nearly all of them rely on fleeting cultural norms rather than logic and reason.”
…it is you who are relying on fleeting cultural norms. The norm I rely on in advocating the use of animals in food, industry, and scientific research is that of the survival and prosperity of my own species, especially my family and friends. It’s only in the last few decades, DUE to the progress of science, technology, and industry that people like PETA have the LUXURY of pretending that animals have rights. But you cannot hold back progress– if PETA succeeds in the politically correct countries, the technological slack will be taken up by countries that don’t give a damn about PETA and other liberal nonsense. Unfortunately those countries also don’t give a damn about human rights or about the environment either… the dominance of countries like China would be PETA’s legacy.
Luckily, enough people aren’t vegan hipster whiners that PETA will never push through its full agenda, notwithstanding the damage it has done to science and medicine.

Is there an animal rights group with more money than PETA to fight for their cause? Anybody realize they have to stay in the spotlight to keep the money rolling in?

PETA-Please sit down and shut the hell-up..

LOL @ Dee! They could call it Tofly! BTW, I heard PETA’s starting a new chapter: People for the Ethical Treatment of Arachnids.

The interview was obviously held in a “no fly zone”.

So you see how my standard is situated apart from mainstream cultural behavior and can be applied with nuance across cultural realities. And you hopefully also see how dependent your behavior is doing what most others do at a particular moment in history.
Your proclaimed standard is self-interest, which defies all systems of ethics except for those created to easily rationalize fundamentally unfair behavior (e.g., stealing non-renewable resources on a massive scale for a particular set of people). It’s just amoral relativism.
Please explain what you mean by rights; given your statement about some people “pretending that animals have rights”, I don’t think you have a clear idea. If you mean rights to be privileges afforded by a state, then you misunderstand PETA’s mission, which is partially to fight for greater rights for non-human animals. If you mean rights to be ‘inalienable qualities’ inherent to a being based on his/her physical attributes — such as the ability to feel pain via a central nervous system, etc. — then you clearly misunderstand the physical realities of animal life and should look more into the scientific progress of which you speak.
You are also mixing up practical concerns with ideological and ontological ones, not to mention throwing around words and labels with reckless abandon. It’s a muddy, uninformed, and disingenuous argument, and shouldn’t be accepted.

Flies are for killing. If anyone is concerned about them he should breed them inside his house.

PETA kills 85% of the animals they take in. A quick google search can find the paperwork from the state of Virginia.

Killing flies is an abomination. Period. How can you kill flies when you can rehabilitate them? I have lots of flies I have taught new skills to, so that they can be productive members of fly society.

What next… should I release into the wild ticks I find on my dog?
PETA has to be able to see the difference in harmful bugs, like flys, mosquitos and ticks that carry disease, and helpful ones like ladybugs(they eat tons of harmful bugs like aphids) or dragonflies (they eat lots of mosquitos).
Stories like this might get PETA into the news but put them into the ‘silly’ organization category.So folks won’t take their warnings as seriously in the future.

Good one

Seriously? PETA needs to get a life. With all the turmoil in the world, when the president swats a fly it gets a onslaught of media coverage? Come over to my house, PETA – I’m making news every day.

So, what’s next? Save the Mosquito Fund!
I’m going to one-up PETA. I’ll start an anti-antibiotic group. I mean, what right do we have to kill bacteria, man? They’re just another living creature, no better or worse than humans!
I wish these idiots would go extinct!

I heard the fly was one of the invited guests on the earlier Scare Force One flby and had to be killed before he buzzed about it. No word yet on the fate of the little bird who twittered.

This afternoon PETA sent a Katcha Bug, a device which traps bugs and allows their safe release back into nature to the White House.
??? It was already in nature.

:|
Ugh. Which is why I’m not a liberal.

Bush sent the fly I’m sure. It’s got to be W’s fault. God, peta are morons.

Wow, so much hate here.

THIS IS PROBABLY THE ONLY THING I SUPPORT OBAMA ON. SURE ARE A LOT OF NUTS OUT THERE!!

PETA members shouldn’t be allowed to take antibiotics. Staph and Strep have rights too!

I think this falls more under the category of PETA being really desperate to get attention. What I found really interesting about the whole fly/Obama interaction was that he picked it up afterwards and threw it away — you know, even with all his aides swarming around and all.

I have been a strict vegetarian for 9 years, but am no fan of PETA. PETA is so hypocritical. They fall all over a man for swatting a fly, but they use someone like Kimora Lee Simmons for poster ads for their “be an angel for dogs” campaign… hello?! she uses animal fur in her clothing lines… she gets animals skinned to make clothes, PETA! Confused much?

PETA and HSUS should all be shipped to Korea.

Clearly this is why no one takes PETA seriously…
What would the recommend be done in SoCal in the pools of foreclosed homes where Mosquitoes are breeding? Leave them to their devices?

who is not perfect? Obama or Bruce Freidrich? Of course Bruce, the mad extremist.

My dog loves to kill flies for fun…how ironic. I guess PETA would tell me to put her down. They can go suck a big broccoli stalk.

I’m a vegetarian. I sympathize with ALL animals that have nervous systems which make them feel pain & pleasure. But I read that such systems in insects are much less comlicated and those in other animals, and we are NOT sure yet how much pain and pleasure these creautres feel. So, because of this UNCERTAINTY and lack of data about insects’ feeling, I choose NOT to kill or torture an animal or a bug except when I have to. I never kill them for fun, as some do. And even when I have to kill a fly, I do it like the presient did: kill it immadiately. If some people find this funny, just remember that we don’t KNOW much about these animals’ feelings. Period.

This yet another example of why nobody takes PETA seriously.
Dont kill flies? GET OVER YOURSELVES!

I can never take an Organization like Peta serious when they kill dogs and cats. When they consider animal life more important than human life. Also, don’t they realize that to grow vegetables it takes land. Land that will displace any animal living on that land. So in their logic they are harming animals. Vegetables don’t show up magically in a supermarket or grocery stand.

What a weird, crazy, sick, and twisted world we live in these days!! God forbid anybody involved with PETA swats at any of the blood-thirsty mosquitoes and ticks which might attack them this summer. They might inadvertently kill the sweet, innocent insects which in turn might cause them to die with disease. (This is really absurd!)

Did PETA ever question the aerial killing of wolves in Alaska during the Presidential election? Now they are swatting at Obama for killing a fly?

PETA didn’t condemn President Obama for acting on instinct. When the media began contacting PETA in droves for a statement, PETA obliged, simply by saying that the president isn’t the Buddha and shouldn’t be expected to do everything right—if not for that, PETA would not have brought it up. It’s the media who are making a big deal about the fly swat, not PETA! We can’t stop all suffering, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t stop any.

When do these wackos get painted as domestic terrorists, which they are? Google “PETA criminal activities” like I did and see what comes up.
As much as I don’t condone murder, throwing PETA to the sharks could only be an improvement to the face of the planet.

What a bunch of wackos! Sad world. Abort a human baby-fine. Swat a germ carrying fly GASP! God, er I mean Allah help us!

It’s become apparent that the Pagans Extending Totalitarian Animism care less about the welfare of humans OR animals than they do simply garnering as much publicity as possible. What sad little people they must be, that their attention deprivation drives them to such lunacy. I hope the President captures another fly in his new Katcha Bug device, and then stomps the whole damn thing–fly and all–into a thousand little fragments.

It’s not as big of a deal as it’s being made into. Even though I do support animals rights, I would not back PETA in the fact that they want to make President Obama look like a murderer for the sake of being on the news.
I’m not saying that all creatures aren’t important, but if I have to chose between PETA and Obama, I think I’ll go with the President.
(Don’t flies only live 2-4 weeks anyways? And at least it died quickly.)

PETA sure has some real nut jobs huh? I mean I do believe in animals rights but isn’t this just a fly? I mean come on, really!!

You misspelt the word ‘publicly’.

i eat cats my names fung lee

PETA dipwads flies are pests so get over it and quit trying to force your stupid philosephies on us all

Everyone says “it’s just a fly” How many of you also say, it’s just a fetus. It’s just a baby, it’s just your dog, it’s just your cat. What gives us the right to devalue any life at all on this planet. Why does any human feel that they are entitled to choose to take the life of any living creature? Should we begin to slaughter people that are handicapped as well? I think we really have to look at what our society is creating by living each day nonchalantly with many of our actions supporting animal cruelty, drastic pollution, and adversely affecting our health. Reduce your meat consumption and use of animal products, for the sake of animals, the environment and your own health. Go vegan!

I used to support peta,because I do believe in some of their beliefs,but to go the extreme of trying to save a fly or a cockroch which promotes dieases what a joke!peta started out with good intentions at first but now has gotten to the point were you cannot take them seriously at all.

Okay. But maybe “its just a fly” and they flipped out, but TONS of people flip out over abortion well if you can says “its just a fly, go head and kill it” then you can say “its just a baby, go head and kill it”, or “its just my mom, go head that kill her”

Are you kidding me? Really? Seriously?! You want to compare abortion to killing a fly. I agree w/ PETA about life for animals and I am against cruelty to animals, I have two childen and a dog but to compare killing a fly to hurting them! FLIES ARE NOT ANIMALS! You extremist need to get a life and worry and more important things than insects! My goodness, extremist are some scary people!

we should not wash hands! we should die from infections! we must not kill those bacteries and viruses, they are people too!

PETA is totaly for idiots alone

Oh no CW thats far too close they need to be shipped clean off the earth and clean out of the milkyway

HOW ABOUT RESPECT EVERYTHING THATS ALIVE…. YOU PEOPLE ARE SO IMMATURE…. OH NO, A FLY, ITS SO DISGUSTING HEIN???? DID YOU KNOW THAT THE FLY IS SUPER CLEAN…..CUZ IF THEY HAVE EVEN A LITTLE PEACE OF DUST…. THEY CANT FLY, THEY ARE UNBALANCED…. AND IF SOMEONE IS A PEST, ITS US HUMAN WHO THINK WHO CAN JUST STEP ON EVERYTHING ON HIS WAY…. I COULD TEACH YOU GUYS SO MUCH… BUT YOU KNOW WHAT, I WILL LET YOU LEARN BY YOUR POOR SELF AND WILL HOPE YOURE THE NEXT OBAMA FLY IN YOURE NEXT LIFE…. SO MAYBE YOURE LIFE WILL SERVE TO A PURPOSE…..