Go figure

Michael Vick may enjoy watching dogs fight; someone else may find that repulsive but see nothing wrong with eating an animal who has had a life as full of pain and suffering as the lives of the fighting dogs. It’s strange that we regard the latter as morally different from, and superior to, the former. How removed from the screaming crowd around the dog pit is the laughing group around the summer steak barbecue?

So asked Gary Francione in a piece on Michael Vick that attracted some attention. People's attitudes toward animals are full of inconsistencies. But is it inconsistent for a vegetarian to support vivisection (experimentation that harms animals)? Not according to the author of "Confessions of a vegetarian vivisector".