An Indelicate Question

I think I have hit my limit of being able to care about the Michael Vick situation. Let me ask something. I haven't eaten meat(on purpose) since I was in junior high. I don't have any problem with people who hunt or farm and can slaughter their own meat. I have a big problem with a factory system that seperates us all from the work, the killing necessary to give us our gluttony. Don't get me wrong, I am a glutton. I understand that Vick's slaughter of animals seems fairly useless and cruel, but isn't killing a pig so you can have a sandwich which you will throw half of away just as wastefull and disrespectful of life? I am finding people's outrage more and more disingeneous when most people have zero problems with the circus, rodeo or marine parks where dolphins are kept in concrete tubs. Is it because he killed dogs? Dogs are special to Americans, certainly. We destroy animal habitat by the millions of acre a year though. We allow pigs, chickens and cows to be not only slaughtered but grossly distorted by hormones and treated like garbage. If this kind of thing bothers you you are generally regarded as a fruit loop, if not a poof. I guess Michael Vick should have just eatne a hamburger, bet on what was in it and shut the fuck up like the rest of America.