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Does Vick Deserve a Second Chance?

Animal Person

Let's deconstruct the concept: Do you think that people who have spent their lives harming animals by eating them, just like I did and much of my family still does, deserve a second chance? Like "producing" foie gras? Like eating foie gras? Is fighting and killing dogs the same thing? Is what he did like hunting?

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Philip E. Devine on Demi-Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

Some might argue that while eating meat is in general acceptable, we are under an obligation to abstain from meat produced in particularly harsh ways: from veal perhaps, or from lobster or from pâté de foie gras. Philip E.