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“Five months after the initial investigation, a Surry County grand jury brought two charges against Vick:

one count of violating VA Code Ann. § 3.1-796.124, which makes it a Class 6 felony to promote dogfighting for amusement, sport, or financial gain or to possess, own, train, transport, or sell any dog intended for animal fighting

one count of violating VA Code Ann. § 3.1-796.122(H), which makes it a Class 6 felony to engage in the torture, ill-treatment, beating, maiming, mutilation, or killing of animals.”

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In more recent years, there has been a major court case that revamped interest in ending animal fighting, and that case was involving former NFL player Michael Vick.

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Explain quotes 1 & 2

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1. “ ‘Cockfighting was the second most popular sport after horse racing. Everyone went. People from every class owned gamecocks,’ said Elaine Shirley, manager of rare breeds for Colonial Williamsburg’s coach and livestock department”(Crews).

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“Mr. DOHRMANN: Yeah, we see it back in England, you know, with bull and bear baiting in the 17th century. It came over to the U.S. and really gained popularity in the 1800s”(Neal)

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Animal fighting had prevalence in early American society and has had progress been made through laws and activism.

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Explain Quotes 1 & 2

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“To the modern world, such wholesale slaughter of animals seems both cruel and unacceptable. However, this was merely part of life in a society where animals were regularly slaughtered in public”(Coley)

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“The inauguration games in 81AD at the Roman Colosseum, lasted for one hundred days and during this time over 9,000 wild animals were slaughtered”(Alchin)

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Animal fighting had its start in the Roman Colosseum during gladiator fights.

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In its history, animal fighting has consisted of various stages of relevance including its start in Rome, its prevalence in early American society and how progress has been made through laws and activism, and one of the more recent cases involving former NFL player Michael Vick.