Save the Ladybugs July 1, 2008
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We started receiving complaints not long after The Home Depot began carrying bags of live ladybugs and praying mantises as part of its "inventory." At multiple stores, bags of insects were reportedly fried in the scorching heat, resulting in slow deaths for every animal in the bags.
Please join PETA in calling on The Home Depot to end its sale of ladybugs and praying mantises at its stores and adopt a policy prohibiting the sale of any live animals. Remind The Home Depot that animals—even ones as small as ladybugs and praying mantises—aren't merchandise and don't deserve to be fried to death in the blazing sun.
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Please send polite comments to:
Frank Blake, CEO
The Home Depot
2455 Paces Ferry Rd
Atlanta, GA 30339-4024
770-433-8211
770-384-3668 (fax)
frank_blake@homedepot.com
Sarah Molinari, Corporate Communications Manager
sarah_molinari@homedepot.com
Brad Shaw, SVP of Corporate Communications
brad_shaw@homedepot.com
Customer Service
info@homedepot.com
Thanks!
Comments
i just saw this today, i was at home depot buying top soil flowers, and a bell pepper plant, and saw the lady bugs and praying mantise. It turns out they sell them, because they help keep other bugs and parasites away from your garden.
Posted by: ksejr1 at July 2, 2008 1:01 AMwho in the world do they think they are
Posted by: nikki blood at July 2, 2008 12:23 PMThat's horrible...especially since praying mantises still aren't amazingly populated. The title of this, though, made me think of the ladybugs who come to my house every year-hah! Save the little buggies!
Posted by: - - rynn at July 2, 2008 6:07 PMi was just there! it was soooo sad!
Posted by: hailey at July 2, 2008 9:08 PMI never heard of this before...I can't believe it. How cruel can people get?
Posted by: Ruby at July 6, 2008 9:33 PMI just wrote to the CEO of the Home Depot. It is not only cruel and inhumane, but it shows how some people are willing to do anything at all just to get money. As if it was not enough to make millions upon millions with their merchandise for houses, gazebos...and other domestic or garden related stuff but they have to include harmless , fragile creatures in this too.
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Why do they sell these insects?
I will be writing to them, all creatures deserve respect, it doesn't matter what size they are.
Posted by: Little_Lotte at July 1, 2008 2:55 PM