Zeitlin the Young makes a good point here: What exactly separates cockfighting from fox hunting, save that the latter is traditionally a sport for gentlemen, while the former is a proletarian entertainment? And why is it so much saner to take out deer with automatic weaponry at long range than let two dogs kill each other? The way we treat animals is, of course, cruel and barbaric -- but the way we treat the treatment is utterly incoherent, and maps to nothing so well as class. Marxists and treehuggers unite!
