Has PETA led to the Mike Vic thing to get out of hand?

Question

Wether it was dogs,rats,snakes or chickens its all the same Vic was caught fighting animals.It's inhumane i get that.

But this burn him at the stake mentality seems to be a little bit of a witch hunt to me assuming that we eat animals every day

Im not for the torture of animals,but Im not going to put animals at the level of humans iether.
Also what the media is saying about Vic torturing these animals.Well lets just say "dont believe everything you hear".excpecialy from a liberal media who want the bill of rights thrown out the window.

Michael Vic was NOT clearly in violation of the NFL's gambling policy.He was not gambling on the NFL.

I am not trying to play down what he did.It was wrong! All i am asking is, has it been blown out of proportion by PETA or organizations like PETA for what ever agenda they might have for doing so.

Answer 1

I don't know about you, but when I eat animals, I assume our farming industries are not abusing the animals before they make it to my plate. When I hunt an animal in the wild, I know it's lived a free life and this is the natural way of life. There is nothing natural about dogfighting. It wasn't that dogs died. Dogs die. People die. All animals die. To make them not die is to play God. However, cruelty is also bad, and we should try to stop that.

Answer 2

No it hasn't been blown out of proportion. What he did was idiotic fighting dogs. Mans best friend. The dogs that are alive are more then likely too vicious too be given to the public, so they're going to have too be put down as well. It's a horrible case and nothing that has been done by any organization has turned this into a witch hunt. Vick did it on his own and he deserves whatever he gets!

Answer 3

They are going a bit too far. I think they are just using this situation to gain popularity, I'm not even sure if they cared about those dogs anyway. I often wonder where they were when greyhounds and horses were "put down" because they could not win anymore races. But with that said, I feel that the media, what a surprise, are the ones throwing gas on this wildfire. Before this case, dogfighting never got this much attention. The media are the ones overblowing this more than PETA.

Answer 4

I don't think Peta did. They didn't help by wanting him to have the worst punishments ever. The media built it up because it's such a big story. One of the NFLs biggest names built an illegal dog fighting gambling ring is a huge story. Keep in mind the media and the law are different. What the media says is different from how the law acts. If the media was in charge of his punishment he'd be thrown in jail for life.

Also keep in mind we eat animals to survive, not for entertainment and profit like Vick.

Answer 5

I use to be able to respect PETA. Everything they are saying about how animals are handled in the food and fur industry is true... it sucks to be an animal. Their more extreme members have turned the organization into something most people don't want to associate with. PETA isn't the only group in modern history that has gotten a bad reputation from being derailed by more extreme members. It's a shame really. It certainly can't be beneficial to those they originally intended to help.

Answer 6

PETA, HSUS, & ASPCA will ride this one until the wheels fall off. I don't support ANY of those organizations NOR do I support animal abuse. But you have to remember the charges here are animal abuse and ILLEGAL GAMBLING. He's facing Fed time, which is stiffer than state time, and the gambling carries more weight than the abuse. He has lost much more than his job here. I think we should leave him alone and let him deal with his concience and consequences. If the pitbull was not such a hot topic, the media and animal rights activists would have let this one die long ago.

Answer 7

I think the burn him at the stake mentality is not from the fighting of the dogs, but mostly from participating in killing/torturing of the losing dogs. Vic obviouly knew it was illegal or he wouldn't have been hiding his participation in it for so long. I hope he spends his time wisely and can comeback as a better person (whatever that means) and be able to have another try in the NFL. I get tired of hearing about nothing but negative things about people.

Answer 8

I'm sure PETA will get lots of mileage out of this. I think PETA goes a bit too far. But if you look at it from the view of someone who thinks it's ok to fight animals (which I don't) if the animal is injured, the logical thing would be to shoot it. It would be put down quickly to minimize suffering. Drowning and strangling animals? That is cruel and immoral, and if someone would do that to an animal, I don't want to know them. They must have had some good evidence against him, or he would have "cleared his good name" like he promised, before pleading guilty.

Answer 9

The media has let it get more out of hand than PETA has. PETA considers animals family, their mission. If someone in your family died, wouldn't you fight for equality too? PETA is fighting for the rights of their family that cannot fight for itself. The media, ESPN, Yahoo! Answers, etc. have given it way more attention than PETA has. The constant debating about whether what he did is right or wrong, whether or not he should play again... that's all the media.

Answer 10

No, just the opposite. It was the people who were shamelessly defending Vick that got this out of hand. If it was a white guy, everyone in America would say to put him in prison and the story would die down in a couple of days. It was the black racists who insist on defending the indefensible that got everybody outraged. All those lame excuses for his actions got all sane people pretty pissed. I know it did me!