Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2018 7:01 am Post subject: Do insects have animal rights?
I know large animals have animal rights: cats, dogs, birds, fish, etc. What about insects? worms? Do they have any animal rights? Who determines these rules? Are they local rules or international rules? I can see bees having animal rights.
What about pets? Some people have pet ants. I think those would be protected. I guess all pets would be protected?
I was watching a video on youtube and a guy was pouring some hot molten aluminum onto a wasp nest in the ground, just to make a casting. I thought, that's just so wrong.
So, is there actually a definitive answer for which animals are protected and which aren't? Where do they draw the line?
Here's some info I found:
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State Animal Cruelty Laws
This is where it gets interesting. Some state animal cruelty laws explicitly exclude all invertebrates (e.g. Alaska Stat §03.55.190) or all insects (e.g. New Mexico Stat §30-18-1) by excluding them from their definition of the word "animal."
However, some states do not exclude insects from their laws. For example, New Jersey's definition of "animal" includes "the whole brute creation" (N.J.S. §4:22-15). Minnesota's definition of "animal" is "every living creature except members of the human race" (Minn. Stat. §343.20).
In jurisdictions where insects are covered by the state animal cruelty statutes, the needless, intentional killing of an insect is illegal and may carry a fine or even imprisonment. Whether charges are filed and the case is actually prosecuted is a separate issue, however. I was unable to locate a single animal cruelty case involving a praying mantis or insect of any kind.
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Nary a bug will ever cross my site without a swift and merciless end coming their way. I've researched a lifetime of methods, strategies and plan meticulously to impose a culling, a massacre if you will, to them and their kind again and again and again.
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most "pests" are in no danger of being extinct and obviously have no higher level of thinking. kill away with extreme prejudice. _________________ (bleep) Kawhi
Curious as to how you’d deal with a wasp nest attached to your house without harming a wasp in anyway.
Or would you leave it there?
I think it's not the killing part - but how you do it.
Pouring molten aluminum into their nest seems kinda cruel.
I was just wondering where do you draw the line.
It's a genuine question. I honestly don't know. I know there's cruelty to crabs - like when you boil them alive people have a problem with that. But then, what about sand fleas? Is there cruelty to sand fleas? Or cruelty to clams?
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Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2018 5:51 pm Post subject:
Soapy water can kill wasps with ease. But most people call an exterminator or wait till winter when they die out/leave. _________________ "Every hurt is a lesson, and every lesson makes you better”
Curious as to how you’d deal with a wasp nest attached to your house without harming a wasp in anyway.
Or would you leave it there?
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Get it at Pep Boys or an Automotive parts place, it is the absolute best way to kill yellow jackets, hornets, bees and really any insect.
Simply put, it melts their wings, they dissolve instantly and if you get it on the nest, it shrivels up into a gooey ball of death!
Do get cute and try to ignite anything, just use it as is!
Also Yellow jackets hunker down on the nest and seem to sleep at night, so the best time to attack is pre-dawn.. _________________ “Always remember... Rumors are carried by haters, spread by fools, and accepted by idiots.”
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I dunno about wasps, but European bees might need to be protected in coming years due to their importance to man. That's the kind of insect that if encountered in large mass, might be better suctioned away and boxed up and used in agriculture (if they can find the queen, at least), but I dunno if they're as scarce as documentaries suggest they're becoming. Before the man who designed the standard bee hive box, bees were housed in wicker skeps that had no internal structure, so they had to kill all the bees to get the honey out.
Then again, Africanized bees need to be eradicated due to their danger. Mediterranean fruit flies, remember those? Gotta go. Everyone here probably got malathioned on at least once. Mosquitoes? Nile virus areas, gotta go. I suppose every species has its upside or downside. There are endangered insect species, btw, just like any other living thing. That's another question. If someone posted a video of themselves killing an endangered insect, what would happen if anything. _________________ GOAT MAGIC REEL SEDALE TRIBUTE EDDIE DONX!
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most "pests" are in no danger of being extinct and obviously have no higher level of thinking. kill away with extreme prejudice.
I'm not sure about that a couple of University of Mass scientists trained a spider to jump on command
Well "Kim" the spider is pretty cool in my book. As long as the insect isn't invading my home or putting the community endanger I leave them alone.
As for rights I'd say no, beside it wouldnt make a whole lot of sense to tie up our court system. Unless they are close to extinction, have a clear benefit to human society and we have to stop some random corporation from wiping them out.
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