Gary Francione doesn't hold back in a letter to The Star Ledger newspaper, also published on nj.com (4 Aug 2013). He first talks about our moral intuitions regarding the cruel acts of Kisha Curtis (who threw her pitbull down a trash chute in a Newark high-rise) and Michael Vick (dog fighting) and Mitt Romney (dog on car roof) and Jose Aparicio (bull fighter who got impaled by a bull).
Are we the animal-lovers we think we are?, apparently originally titled "We’re all Kisha Curtis" (nj.com, published 4 Aug 2013)
So how are we any different from Kisha Curtis or Michael Vick or Mitt Romney or Jose Aparicio? The answer: We aren’t.
And it’s no answer to say that Curtis and the others engaged directly in the cruel action, whereas most of us just buy our animal foods in neat packages at the supermarket. As any first-year criminal law student can tell you, there is no difference between the person who does the act and the person who pays for someone else to do it.
Are we the animal-lovers we think we are?, apparently originally titled "We’re all Kisha Curtis" (nj.com, published 4 Aug 2013)