Michael Mexico will also team up with Gael Garcia for the long awaited sequel to Amores perros (love's a Bytch),a film that takes a profound look into the inner cities of Mexico city and Dog Fighting
I don't get the 'bubu we eat meat!' angle. I don't think anyone is in danger from a cow 'trained' to be a steak. Nor do I think folks line up to cheer at the slaughterhouse. It is a twisted and often very unfortunate - and hypocritical - world we live in...but damn can't we at least TRY to make it a little less horrible?
I could really go for a steak right now. They should put murdering criminals in cages to fight to the death. If you win you stay alive,like Gladiator.
If cows fought eachother to the death than I might think about lining up to cheer at the slaughterhouse. Do you consider it horrible to kill cows for food?
... What? The thread is already talking about the similarities/connections (killing animals). I'm talking about the differences, which I think are important. Don't quite know what you are trying to say here.
I think most of this crazy world doesn't make sense. Pictures of poor kittens and puppies garner attention, but every year 10-12 million pets are euthanized yearly mostly because they aren't cute anymore and their (or their parent's) owners send them directly to the pound or release them in the wild unspayed/neutered. The logic behind morality confounds researchers to this day. Does a deliberate act of cruelty outweigh the wholesale suffering of animals who are victims of neglect, apathy or inconvenience? Oh well, not the right forum or discussion for any of this.
I'm thinking if dogs could talk, there'd be a lot more of them sickened by people boxing, or UCF cage match fighting than you realize.
Had dog for the first time two months ago in Korea. Tastes like beef. They have cockfighting on TV here. Really though i think this has been blown way out of proportion. If only people cared this much about the suffering of their fellow human beings.
I think this is the point I'm really trying to get to. media guys are trying to equate pacman, who slammed a stripper's head into the stage and who's friend in the same incident paralyzed a guy, to vick. I really can't see a guy getting suspended for a year for fighting dogs. vick has had the ron mexico incident, which is still circumstantial, the airport incident, and now this. all negative events, but no where the trouble pacman gets into. now roger goodall is quoted as saying he is dissappointed in portis's comments. I understand the guy wants to clean up the nfl, but maybe he should focus on some of the more serious offenders, like tank johnson who had an arsenal of weapons found at his house. that would seem to me to be a bigger concern, or some of these domestic violence incidents.
How about eating Dog and slamming a girls head into the ground? How about fighting dogs and pimping girls? How about killing a dog and killing a girl? exactly when does human suffering supercede animal suffering? Don't get me wrong i don't want to see animals suffer either but give me a break.
If something's wrong than it should be stopped. That doesn't mean there is nothing else in the world that is wrong. It doesn't mean that other things aren't worse -- it just means this one wrong thing (dog fighting) is being addressed. If there are problems with the meat industry and slaughter houses those need addressed also but because there are issues with slaughter houses doesn't make dog fighting more or less wrong. Should we not arrest pick pockets because bank robbers are so much worse and we haven't stopped all of them?
By reasoning "well, it's not a big deal because XXX also happens", then in many ways that's exactly what people in this thread are saying. Geronimo is right. No one is happy about slaughterhouse conditions, or saying that everything is 'equally bad' (except maybe Meowgi), but that doesn't suddenly make the other issue less of a big deal or somehow a little more okay, which is how it is coming across in this thread.
