Worse Than Mike Vick?

I love dogs...always had one as a kid...the idea of training them to fight and disposing of the losers is really repugnant. Exploiting them for selfish means is, of course, an evil. Those responsible should be punished...maybe by getting them into the Octagon and having them battle it out in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Yeah, I know...then, Id be no better than they are. The reality is, however, that people will do most anything if there's a possible reward. Would you allow strangers to take your kids (ages 8-15)away for six weeks (during school)in hopes of scoring some cash? I wouldn't, but 40 sets of parents did just that last spring.
CBS decided the ultimate reality show should feature 40 kids ages 8-15 in the middle of New Mexico with no electricity, no indoor plumbing and no school who are left to create the perfect society without "interference" from adults. What, haven't these idiots read Lord of the Flies? The program, called "Kid Nation" required these kids to work sunup to sundown and be at the beck and call of producers 24/7. Parents were required to sign a 22-page contract which specified, among other things, that they were not allowed to talk to reporters about what was going on. Even a non-legal type like myuself knows that parents cannot sign away rights of minor children, yet the labor laws were undoubtedly pushed aside; there are very strict regulations for child actors in Hollywood...apparently, these did not exist in New Mexico.
By the time authorities got out there to check on things, production had finished, and evidence was nowhere to be found. No harm evidfent, no foul evident. Rumors that kids had drunk bleach and been burned by hot oil in a cooking attempt could not be verified, and parents were unwilling to talk. I'm not certain what the monetary rewards were, but parents who would allow such a thing are, I think, worse than Mike Vick and his cohorts.
Taking your child out of school for a week's visit to Disneyland is bad enough; having them subjected to this scenario in hopes of making a profit seems downright criminal to me.
What the hell has happened to the "entertainment" industry? Bruce Springsteen was right: "57 channels and nothing on."