Dog fighting may be offensive to a lot of people, including myself.  However, it is a practice involving <b>animals</b>.  Dogs are not special animals.  Many people have elevated them to special status through misappropriated <i>love</i>.  This is tantamount to worship.
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When you look at the public reaction to Michael Vick`s conviction on dog fighting charges you see clear evidence of how warped our society is.  Here`s what I mean:
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<li>Pets outnumber people in the United States by about 60 million
<li>In 2005 $36.3 billion was spent on pet food and health care
<li>5 year sentence for dog fighting - 3 year minimum involuntary man slaughter sentence
<li>we slaughter 35 million cows annually in the USA
<li>23 million chickens are killed each day in the U.S. 
<li><b>3700 human abortions are performed each day</b>
<li>how about insects killed with automobiles and insecticides
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Now lets just look at this rationally for a moment.  Pretend you are an animal with a choice.  Had you rather be given the chance to fight to stay alive or simply marched into a slaughterhouse to be unceremoniously killed?  I guess the animal rights folks would say that killing and eating animals is wrong.  Again, what about the insects?  What about predator animals and vermin?  
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On this issue there is no room for compromise.  Either <b>all</b> animals are sacred or none are sacred.  The answer is obvious - none are sacred.  Animals are organisms provided by God to serve man in any capacity he thinks best.  
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Animal rights folks choose to love animals and hate people.
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I choose to eat animals and love people.  