Michael Vick

[Cronos]

If you eat any food that contains animals , you hunt, or anything that involves the killing of animals and you're trying to condemn Michael Vick, you're a hypocrite.

So abusing animals and treating them inhumanely(an assumption I'm making from some of the videos) then killing them if they should happen to lose is the same as raising and killing animals for food?

[Simbagal23]

If you eat any food that contains animals , you hunt, or anything that involves the killing of animals and you're trying to condemn Michael Vick, you're a hypocrite.

Hmmmm....except eating meat isn't a felony. Participating in dog fighting is a felony in the state of Virginia. And I think people are referring to Vick's overall issues (Ron Mexico, airport water bottle incident, et al), not just this particular issue. IMO

[Socnorb11]

If you eat any food that contains animals , you hunt, or anything that involves the killing of animals and you're trying to condemn Michael Vick, you're a hypocrite.

I think it's the manner in which the dogs are destroyed, and the reason............those are the issues.

Killing an animal with a gun to eat is quite a bit different than selling tickets to watch two dogs maul each other, and then drowning (or worse) the weak ones.

[Bo Hart]

I want him playing for the Rams.

I don't really care what he does off the field if it has nothing to do with football. He's a good player.

Good FB player?

And Aaron Miles is an all star shortstop.

Michael Vick is an official laughingstock for Chiefs fans everywhere. KC stopped him cold with a mediocre d-line, three slow LB's and a very, very suspect secondary. He got laughed out of Arrowhead in '04.

He's almost as good at being a well-adjusted human as he is at quarterbacking.

Michael Vick is undoubtedly one of the most overrated players in the game. It's one thing to say that he's not superstar, but to liken him to Aaron Miles?

And you're saying he's a joke because he played poorly against the Cheifs? Well, in that case, Larry Johnson is also laughingstock. He ran for 32 yards against the Colts. Yes, that's right, the Indianapolis Colts. The same Colts that gave up an average of 173 rushing yards per game in the regular season. Quite frankly, I don't see how he still has a job. He'll probably be beat out by a hip-less Priest Holmes this pre-season.

[Bo Hart]

If you eat any food that contains animals , you hunt, or anything that involves the killing of animals and you're trying to condemn Michael Vick, you're a hypocrite.

You cannot possibly compare electrocuting a dog because it did poorly in a fight to killing another animal for food.

[heyzeus]

If you eat any food that contains animals , you hunt, or anything that involves the killing of animals and you're trying to condemn Michael Vick, you're a hypocrite.

I think it's the manner in which the dogs are destroyed, and the reason............those are the issues.

Killing an animal with a gun to eat is quite a bit different than selling tickets to watch two dogs maul each other, and then drowning (or worse) the weak ones.

Or slamming a dog repeatedly against the ground until it's dead, or electrocuting it until it is dead. Just for your own entertainment.

Hunting and food production are not carried out in this manner. Nor are they carried out for the purpose of having two animals fight to a painful bloody death for our entertainment.

[arnie.k]

If you eat any food that contains animals , you hunt, or anything that involves the killing of animals and you're trying to condemn Michael Vick, you're a hypocrite.

i answered this claim on the second page of this thread, but i don't mind quoting myself again:

dude, i can't condone killing animals for any reason (food, clothing, etc), and i won't. but, that doesn't mean there aren't levels of "badness" to this.

killing an animal so you can eat it < killing an animal so you can have a nice purse < killing an animal for no good reason < killing an animal in a cruel manner for no good reason

the scale i measure it on is respect. you gotta treat these animals with respect, even if you intend to eat them. inhumane treatment of a living animal is to me much much worse eating an animal. and cruelty for the sake of "sport" is just inexcusable.

[omaha_red]

If you eat any food that contains animals , you hunt, or anything that involves the killing of animals and you're trying to condemn Michael Vick, you're a hypocrite.

your real name isn't "Deion Sanders" is it??

[ghostrunner]

If you eat any food that contains animals , you hunt, or anything that involves the killing of animals and you're trying to condemn Michael Vick, you're a hypocrite.

So are you a vegetarian, or do you condone dog-fighting?

[docellis]

I don't know if I should make this a separate rant or not but it relates to this topic.

I HATE FOX NEWS.

I HATE THAT FOX NEWS IS ALWAYS ON TWO OF THE EIGHT TELEVISIONS IN MY GYM'S CARDIO ROOM.

I HATE THAT THEY FLASHED HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE video of dogs attacking each other on the tv next to the game I was trying to watch.

I hate that they attempt to be some moral bastion - yet - that channel shows more images of Lindsay and Paris and Britney than any of the other 6 channels (*INCLUDING MTV and VH1*) and I hate that there must be enough people wanting to watch that channel that it must be on two televisions.