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Off Topic: Dog Fighting and Meat Eating

By Mike

Is a person who eats foi gras who also opposes dog fighting intellectually consistent? Ted Frank asked the question, though I?ll frame it more broadly: Is it consistent to eat any meat at all while opposing dog fighting? The lives of fighting dogs is nasty, brutish, and short. They are placed in tiny pens ? usually in the basement. Free of sunlight or fresh air, their aggression grows. They are forced to endure grueling workouts, and if they do not perform well, they are killed. Since the people responsible for dog fighting are heinous, the dogs are kicked, punched, hit with sticks and bats; they are shocked with cattle prods.  For more grisly details, read this brief.  To create foi gras, geese who are already full have tubes placed in their mouths...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on September 19, 2007 (boomark / email).