Great, insightful question - we all want to eradicate disease ‘for the good of mankind,’ but heaven help us all if we even suggest some vertebrate be left to die out so people don’t starve.
Maybe that’s the dividing line for the PETA folks. I certainly don’t hear them taking sides with mosquitoes or termites.
Can’t enjoy the Great Outdoors with mosquitoes.
I don’t know what their gripe is with termites. They don’t gnaw up your cave.