What was the biggest lie that you ever heard from anti-zoo people?

[Davdhole]

Have you called upon the fact that antropomorphizing animals is bad?

I did tell her that she was projecting her emotions onto zoo animals, as they all seem to do. After a bit more going back and forth, she said she had to get off her break and I could have the last word, which is when I said something about her keeping cats, and she replied quick. I'm not saying she didn't have to work, but I wouldn't be surprised if she was giving up trying to tell me I'm wrong and needed to get away, and me mentioning her animals that bring her joy triggered her into engaging more.

 

[Mickey]

A bit of offtopic, but this morning this video popped out in my reccomended section, it talks of all the controversy and path that took Peta from a respectable and agreeable association to the twisted and incoherent psychos they are now, some of which I didn't even know, I'm gonna go on a trip around the web later this day to look up every article she mentions and see if it trustworthy, as you never know these days, but I think it sells the true image of Peta very well.
Also disclaimer: this video is not for a sensible audience and possibly minors too.

 

[Platypusboy]

Last night while I was leaving Helsinki zoo there was some sort of vegan protest going on right outside the entrance. The dumbest thing I saw was that they had signs that said “why eat one but conserve the other”, with two pictures of animals. They were a domestic pig... and a domestic yak. I don’t think they were inherently anti zoo, but just using the zoo to get more attention (as it is one of the most visited days for the zoo because of an event).

 

[evilmonkey239]

As someone who has gone vegan within the past year, I have to say that the vegan to anti-zoo pipeline is sadly a very real thing. For a group of people that thinks of themselves as enlightened compared to the general population, ideas unsupported by facts like “zoos are animal prisons” remain very mainstream. I follow a number of vegans on social media platforms like Twitter, and the topic of zoos has come up a few times. Here are a few things I have heard:

“Animals in zoos only have babies because of forced breeding.”

“ACAB includes zookeepers.”

“Captivity is a fate worse than extinction.”

I’ve also encountered people who aren’t against captive breeding, but don’t think public zoos should be a thing because paying guests admission to see animals = exploitation. Never mind that the money for the upkeep of all those animals needs to come from somewhere, and that those funds can be used for conservation efforts…

 

[JDB1992]

They wanted elephants banned from UK zoos to be exploited by poachers in the wild whilst not wanting to ban coatis from UK zoos when coatis are causing harm to the British ecosystem.

Damian Aspinall telling people not to visit zoos while he owns two of them and makes money from operating two zoos.

 

[TeaLovingDave]

coatis are causing harm to the British ecosystem.

Given the fact that the only known introduced population in the UK died out of its own accord about 15 years ago, and never expanded out from the southern reaches of the Lake District, I think the burden of evidence is on you to demonstrate the validity of this claim let alone your claim anti-zoo activists were in favour of the introduction of the species!