Quote Originally Posted by GLC1968 View Post
I'd like to know how all those butterfly-loving-PETA-supporting-vegans feel about the pesticides that make the veggies they eat possible? Hmmmm? And do they kill a mosquito if it's sucking on their arm? Or how about the ant crawling across their kitchen counter? And how will they ever live with themselves if they ever get stung by a honey bee? OMG - the horror of it all!
The one thing that can be said about most PETA types is that they are nearly always consistent--they are going to eat veggies grown without pesticides, they are going to let that mosquito do it's business and get on it's way, and they will use humane traps to catch any bugs in their house. All of this I know from vegan/PETA people I've met, but I've never asked about the bee sting thing. I know they don't have a problem with a death that happens in the natural order of things, and I suspect that bee stings would fall under that category (although by the same token they'd go out of their way to not piss off a bee).

Sarah