Anti-vaxxers now having fits about vax for zoo animals.

[Ocelot II]

A covid vaccine for animals has been developed and is being administered to animals in zoos around the world, apparently without side-effects. But the anti-vax nutballs are having a cow, as it were, about that, too:

After the Oakland Zoo announced plans to vaccinate some of its animals, it immediately faced backlash from anti-vaxxers on social media, by phone, and by email. Anti-vaxxer Instagram influencers with tens of thousands of followers helped amplify the attacks.

“It was such an onslaught,” says Erin Harrison, vice president of marketing and communications at the Oakland Zoo. “Saying you’re poisoning your animals, killing your animals.”

Many of the messages, filled with misinformation, took the fact that the vaccine is legally defined as experimental to be an indication that zoos were conducting experiments on their animals. “Half of them said we’re going to report you to PETA,” Harrison says.

PETA, for its part, then put out a statement in support of the Oakland Zoo, noting, “These vaccines have been clinically tested and administered to animals only after deep consideration by veterinary professionals. Since growing numbers of big cats, apes, and otters in zoos are contracting SARS-CoV-2—the virus that causes COVID-19—from asymptomatic humans, the evidence clearly indicates that the benefits of vaccination in susceptible species far outweigh the dire risks of infection for unvaccinated animals.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/bears-baboons-tigers-are-getting-covid-vaccines-at-zoos-across-the-us

[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. TFG supporters are idiots

[Irish_Dem]

2. God help me, I am beginning to agree that the anti-vaxxers should not get vaccinated.

We need to get their DNA out of the gene pool.

[lagomorph777]

3. These are the same idiots who are chugging deworming medicine?

[LisaL]

5. Ones and the same.

Go figure.

[applegrove]

4. Good for them.

[Ocelot II]

6. ?

[applegrove]

10. Good for taking care of the animals by vaccinating them.

[Initech]

7. Yet these fucking morons will happily take medication meant for farm animals.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

8. Peta

Has lost my respect years ago.. for forcing cats to be vegetarian. The kittens and cats they fed as vegetarians all died. They also believe no one should have animals as pets.

Cat lives are miserable and short.
Female cats get pregnant with litter after litter until they die.
Peta is against TnR too. Last time I looked.

A feral cat with no human help usually dies after living 2 years. Two years being devoured by fleas and ticks,hungry. Pregnant if female, all the time. Left cold ,sick,unsafe from predators and cars...

However beloved pet cats live to be 20-30 years old.

I strongly disagree with peta on a lot of things.

[Ocelot II]

9. PETA are mostly fanatical idiots.

They're right about the zoo vax, but not much else.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

11. Yeah they are extreme and wrong on so many things to count

But they are right about the vaccine.

I hope all the big and little cats are safe,and the other animals too.