What snacks do they serve at dogfights, anyhow? Do we want to know?

Peter Singer, commenting on the signing of Micheal Vick, cast a stone or two at the rest of us. Here's a little commentary on the issue.

It is an empirical fact that both dog-fighting and factory farming subject non-human animals to incredible cruelty. I suspect people will grant this in the case of dog-fighting, but will, if my students are any indication, be reluctant to admit this about animals in factory farms. I’m not going to try to defend the empirical facts. Some quick research will support these facts. More...