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General News    H4'ed 10/14/09

DogFighting Thrives in Chicago--even at Day Care Center

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Fans on their way to the Eagles/Buccaneers game on Sunday were not happy to see Michael Vick protestors with "Power to the Puppies" and "Stop. Think. Boycott." signs outside Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia.

"Vick is the best" and "I hate dogs... I am glad Vick killed them," some yelled as they pushed and shoved the sign holders and spilled Coke on their signs.

Others told the protestors to get a life and that Vick's dogfighting is over and he deserves a "second chance."

But back in Chicago, the saga of dog fighting and especially its influence on children is far from over.

On the same day the nation watched a video of the beating death of 16-year-old Derrion Albert in Chicago, Cook County sheriff deputies were watching a video of an animal being burned to death on the cell phone of a man arrested the same day in connection with a dogfighting operation run at a suburban Chicago day care center.

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Martha Rosenberg is an award-winning investigative public health reporter who covers the food, drug and gun industries. Her first book, Born With A Junk Food Deficiency: How Flaks, Quacks and Hacks Pimp The Public Health, is distributed by Random (more...)
 

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