Oh, I see the difference. I'm a hunter. An ethical hunter. And we frown heavily on sport hunters. You don't eat the meat, you don't kill the animal.
What I think you're failing to grasp is my issue with our society in general and our view of animal lives vs. human lives. In a perfect world, I'd love it to be the way you describe. Perfect slaughter houses (they don't exist - they are cruel, inhumane, evil places), pets being protected, and animal abuses outlawed. Utopia all around.
But the fact is right now, much of our country believe that pets are more important than human beings. There's no denying this is real in many segments of the society. Not to make this fully political, but the vast majority of Americans simply don't give a **** about a baby with a beating heart being dissected and ripped apart through its chest cavity and through its face to harvest its organs. It's on video. And Americans simply just don't give a damn.
But a man kills a lion on a sport hunt, and people are ready to leave their jobs to protest, to issue death threats to the man, yet sit idly by while baby harvesting goes on.
Yeah, in a perfect world we'd all be protected and Utopia would exist. But the reality is that our morality as a nation has become skewed when we think that the dogs Michael Vick tortured or Cecile the Lion is more important than a living breathing baby, or when there is no outrage over black on black crime, for instance.
I'll protest the Greg Hardys and the Ray Rices of the world first.
