Excellent Vick case commentary relates to animal hypocrisy

[Guest guest]

There was an excellent piece on the Michael Vick

controversy that, while defending Vick to some degree, pointed out the

hypocrisy of our ethical can legal standards as they apply to animals. It’s

worth the read and presumably reached a relatively new audience for such

argument. Here’s a snip and the link is below (you have to scroll down to

the third story on the page):

 

“But Vick's lawbreaking was

relatively minor compared to animal mistreatment that happens continuously,

within the law, at nearly all levels of the meat production industry, and with

which all but vegetarians are complicit. There is some kind of mass neurosis at

work in the rush to denounce Vick, wag fingers and say he deserved even worse.

Society wants to scapegoat Vick to avoid contemplating its own routine,

systematic killing of animals.”

 

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=easterbrookpreview/070828 & sportCat=nfl