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Identify any fallacies in the following two passages. Why are they different?
Letter to the editor: "Your food section frequently features recipes with veal, and you say veal is a wholesome, nutritious dish. I disagree. Do you know how veal comes to be on your plate? At birth a newborn calf is separated from its mother, placed in a dark enclosure, and chained by its neck so that it cannot move freely. This limits muscular development so that the animal is tender. It is kept in the dark pen until the day it is cruelly slaughtered."
-Cascade News


Definitions:

Rights Offering

A method by which a company offers new shares to its existing shareholders in proportion to their current shareholding, typically at a discount to the current market price.

Market Price

Market price is the current price at which a security or commodity can be bought or sold in a public market.

Security

A financial instrument representing an ownership position in a publicly-traded corporation (stock), a creditor relationship with a governmental body or a corporation (bond), or rights to ownership as represented by an option.

Direct Private Long-term Debt Financing

A funding method where businesses borrow money directly from private investors, bypassing traditional bank loans, usually for a period longer than one year.

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