i meant to say a good analogy between joe meat-eater and mike vick would be someone who goes hunting for food (like our ancestors did) and someone who goes out into the woods w/ a Kalishnikov and strafes a deer while laughing and walks off … leaving the carcass to rot.

I would say one of those two hunters might be more prone to becoming a Ted Bundy type.

You can gamble on anything … why choose bloodsports?

Gee, then i wonder why the likes of Bill Romanowski (Psychoski) and “Cryin” Ryan Leaf got bad press?

If ye act like a thug, then you’ll be portrayed like a thug.

Hold on a minute … i’m making moves towards a vegan diet myself and have already eliminated all corporate farming products from my plate. So i ain’t knocking it.

But there is a big fuckin difference between the majority of those who eat meat out of tradition (because they had it drummed into them since childhood that meat is a normal & natural part of the human diet) and some sadistic motherfucker who gets thrill out of watching the agonizing pain and bloodshed of two animals tearing each other apart and then electrocuting the surviors.

And i don’t know to many normal meat eaters with rape stands in their back yards.

I for one was somewhat surprised and delighted to learn that there is even a law on the books that criminalizes dog fights.

I can’t help but feel that A LOT of the animosity towards Vick and NFL players in general has a lot to do with the color of their skin as well.

No it doesn’t. It has to do with some damning testimony against him that he gambled over bloodsports coupled with the physical evidence of rape stands and numerous corpses of butchered and murdered dogs which were found on his property.

“Football star Michael Vick has been condemned for allegedly helping to execute dogs. But is killing a dog morally worse than killing a chicken, cow, pig, lamb, or fish which is done every hour of every day to enable non-vegans to enjoy the kind of diet they’ve become accustomed to? The fact that a dog is much more likely to be someone’s pet doesn’t answer the question; it only explains why that someone is upset over canineicide but cares much less about the liquidation of the other animals.”

- John Robbins, Diet For A New America

“The following pages were written in the concentration camp in Dachau, in the midst of all kinds of cruelties. They were furtively scrawled in a hospital barrack where i stayed during my illness, in a time when death grasped day by day after us, when we lost twelve thousand within four and a half months…
You asked my why i do not eat meat and you are wondering at the reasons of my behavior… I refuse to eat animals because I cannot nourish myself by the sufferings and by the death of other creatures. I refuse to do so, because I suffered so painfully myself that I can feel the pain of others by recalling my own sufferings…
I am not preaching.. I am writing this letter to you, to an already awakened individual who rationally controls his impulses, who feels responsible, internally and externally, for his acts, who knows that our supreme court is sitting in our conscience…
I have not the intention to point with my finger… i think it is much more my duty to stir up my own conscience… that is the point; I want to grow up into a better world where a higher law grants more happiness, in a new world where god’s commandment reigns; you shall love each other.”

- Edgar Kupfer, “Animals, my Brethren”, The Dachau Diaries