The Petco store here sells fish, birds, rodents, and a few reptiles/amphibians. I imagine they occasionally have casualties with the incoming and outgoing of these animals, I would think any pet store would. Even animal shelters I'm sure have had deaths (other than euthanasia) before due to sickly health or whatnot. So that slogan: "Petco Park might be the place where homers go to die, but PETCO stores are where animals go to die." comes off as totally ridiculous to me, but then a lot of propaganda from Peta does. Petco also has adoption center and shelter fund raisers and other very beneficial events for pets. Peta would wipe away the significant good done for thousands of animals, for one or two bad that is often probably skewed or misconstrued anyway. It seems to me as drastic as campaigning to get rid of plastic bags due to some person at some point and time misusing it.

I would have nothing against a vegetarian alternative for people who wanted to have the option, as long as they don't take away the regular meat alternative for others, which I'm sure Peta would love to do but knows they would never be able to.

I agree the letters to the baseball players urging them to turn down an award seems ludicrous. Then again most radical groups, on one side or another, take things to a ridiculous extreme.