Fantastic editorial in Boston Review

h/t Fran for finding this gem...


There is a fantastic editorial in the Boston Review.


First of all, there is a stand alone statement in this article that I am going to excerpt in bold. It has been a while since I have run across such a profound statement.


Today’s pit bull bans tell us more about ourselves than about the breed. The drive to label, condemn, and exterminate has become a moral enterprise.


The editorial is titled;

Dead Dogs

Breed bans, euthanasia, and preemptive justice

by Colin Dayan

Early on Friday morning, March 11, 2005, a caravan of vehicles drove from New Orleans to a home outside the city of Lafayette, in the heart of “Cajun country.” State police, a SWAT team, U.S. customs officials, and federal agents, with the aid of the Louisiana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (LSPCA) and the Humane Society of the United States, raided the home of Floyd Boudreaux. They confiscated 57 American pit bull terriers and arrested Boudreaux and his son Guy on 48 counts of dogfighting. The dogs were loaded into a truck and driven back to New Orleans.

That night the LSPCA began killing the dogs by injection. They did not stop until the next day. By the time the Boudreauxs were released on bail on Monday morning, their dogs had already been cremated.

Read on...