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The Lure of an Inherited Mink

NPR | By Randy Cohen
Published October 17, 2004 at 12:00 AM EDT

Is it ethical to wear an old fur coat? After all, you didn't harm any new animals. This week, Ethicist Randy Cohen of The New York Times Magazine offers advice to a listener who can't decide what to do with an old mink coat given to her by her mother.

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Randy Cohen was born in Charleston, S.C., and raised in Reading, Pa. He attended graduate school at the California Institute of the Arts as a music major studying composition.

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