--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon <mdixon.6...@...> wrote: > > Shemp, I have to disagree with you on this one. First of all dog fighting is > highly illegal. Nobody makes cattle,.sheep, swine. or chickens fight for > their lives before they are slaughtered for food.
Maybe they should. > > --- On Sun, 8/9/09, shempmcgurk <shempmcg...@...> wrote: > > > From: shempmcgurk <shempmcg...@...> > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Michael Vick and moral equivalency > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Date: Sunday, August 9, 2009, 8:15 PM > > > > > > > I don't think Michael Vick should have spent a day in prison. > > Needless to say, I think what he did to those dogs was horrific and he should > have paid some penalty for it. But I'll tell you why I don't think he should > have spent a minute in prison. > > We are a society that eats animals. Not by the thousands. Not by the > millions. Not by the tens of millions. BUT BY THE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS EACH > YEAR! > > We use cows, for example, to give us what is arguably the most complete, > perfect food -- milk, just like from our own mothers -- and then as a reward > for nourishing us, we bring her to a slaughterhouse, at the end of her > usefulness as a reservoir of milk, where we first subject her cerebral cortex > to a jolt of electricity from a prod in order to brain-kill her and then > proceed to cut off her head, chop her up into little pieces, mince her, and > then proceed to eat her in the next day's Big Mac. > > HOW IS THAT ANY LESS BARBARIC THAN WHAT MICHAEL VICK DID TO THOSE DOGS????? > At least he wasn't a hypocrite about it and butchered the poor animals with > by his own hand. > > We, on the other hand, consume our meats neatly laid out before us without > any clue as to the torture and vileness that we had subjected the animal to > both during and at the end of its life. > > I actually have more respect for hunters who hunt and kill deer or whatever > because at least those animals had a life in the wild before they were > killed. And the hunter actually gets down and does the dirty work of both > killing and, often, cutting the animal up (although the butchering is usually > left to a professional) . But in over 98% of the cases, the hunter and his > family eat the animal they have killed. >
