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Puerto Rico urged to ban cockfighting

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Cockfighting has been successfully banned in all but one US state. Now Louisiana, the last state offering refuge for this "sport", has committed to banning cockfighting in 2008. Having successfully campaigned to ban cockfighting in all US States, animal welfare groups are focusing their attention on a US territory: Puerto Rico.

[Via Yahoo! News]

In Puerto Rico, however, cockfighting is so widespread it is considered part of the local culture. In fact, the territory's legislature has protected the practice as a "cultural right" of the island's inhabitants.

According to the lawmaker who introduced the bill, Carlos Molina: "There are many people who enjoy this sport and we are not going to allow any group of people to come here and prevent that right. The sport does no damage to anyone."

But PETA intends to change this attitude, a spokesman said: "The cruel blood sport (is) illegal in every U.S. state and now it is time for Puerto Rico to follow suit."

The American Humane Society is also working to wipe out cockfighting in Puerto Rico, according to a spokesman: "We do plan to mount a campaign to appeal to the many Puerto Ricans who agree with our perspective that this practice constitutes needless cruelty."

How much success these groups will have in eradicating the sport in Puerto Rico remains to be seen.

Posted by emmamcneil on July 19, 2007

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Cockfighting has been illegal in Jamaica for a very long time. Puerto Rico should join the rest of the civilized world and follow Jamaica's fine example!

Posted by: sherry | July 19, 2007 5:21 PM

Oh Please....

Posted by: evelyn torres | July 20, 2007 6:59 AM

It's the matter of cruelty and abuse. They will fight when they meet each other because are born to be a fighter. Men tends to take this advantages as an opprtunity for them to make money or use it as a hobby to fill up their fantasy.

Posted by: Eddison Wong | July 20, 2007 9:49 AM

What a shame it is, that soft hearted folks such as yourselves can endanger the survival of a species of fowl that took thousands of years of selective breeding to establish. Why do all you idiots think they are called FIGHTING COCKS?????? The only 3 things that a fighting cock lives for is food, sex & fighting.
I hope your children set around on their dead asses playing grand theft auto on their play station or maybe set around watching crap like the A Team. Hell they fire a 30 round clip of bullets at the bad guys and never ever hurt anyone or get hurt in return. Lord knows we wouldn't want our children to think that there are consequences associated with violence.
Cock fighting is a sport that teaches life & death on a reality basis.
It's OK for Uncle Sam to arm & fight our children to save a nickle on a barrel of oil, but you fools want to outlaw cockfighting. What are you thinking????????? Aren't our children more important to us????? Let's all leave the cockfighter alone, cause his children are the only ones that have a firm grip on reality.
My son, a cockfighter is laying his life on the line in Iraq on a daily basis, and what I fear the most is that he is just as game as his fowl. He won't quit in the face of adversity. He'll grab his gonads and lead the charge if need be. I wonder where he learned about bravery & determination?????
We hear all this crap that the birds are forced to fight. Well first hand experience tells me different. Either one or both cocks can quit at any time during the fight. If he doesn't want to fight he can run or fly away, but he doesn't. Anyone care to guess why???? It's because it is in his nature not to give way to the other cock. No different than a yard rooster. Maybe we should arrest every country bumpkin that has ever had an old rooster kill the young rooster on his yard. Maybe we should arrest the politicians that support the war.
I am sick of city folks making laws for country folks.
Life & death go hand in hand. Just like good & evil, like night & day.
Maybe you should consider some other way to really make this globe a better place to live. Ending legal cockfighting is not going to make it go away. Our vice laws have not stop sex crimes & prostitution, our gun laws have not stopped gun crime, our drug policies have not stopped drugs. Why do you all think that another law on the books will help?

Posted by: Tony Prosperie | July 20, 2007 3:41 PM

Oh, by the way Walt Disney made millions off of fantay movies directed at us & our children, but I don't recall any reality films.
I would love to live in Walts fantasy world, but I have to face reality, my son is fighting to protect your rights while his rights are being stripped away & taken away.
All you animal loving, grass eating fools must want the world to be like Disney Land. SORRY, GOD MADE THIS WORLD NOT GOOD OLD WALT!!!!! GOD ALLOWS US TO HAVE A TASTE OF THE BAD SO THAT WE CAN APPRECIATE THE GOOD.
I challenge any of you to a survival contest. We both weigh in and record our weights. We both go back into a natural environment. Live like an animal. You gather your food & I will be a HUNTER/gatherer. At the end of 6 weeks we come back to reality and weigh in again. If you were able to survive some how, I would bet that I would be the healthier of the two.

Posted by: Tony Prosperie | July 20, 2007 7:29 PM

Hell No, Puerto Rico!
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Posted by: 50cents | July 21, 2007 2:59 AM

i luv puerto rico but now i hate it. they dont care about anything but thinking thye are so cool b/c they hurt animals.

join the 21st century and ban cockfighting and stick to human boxing you creeps!!

Posted by: who wants to no | August 15, 2007 3:49 AM

oh hell to the no.

im leavin pueto rico...

Posted by: daddy yankee | August 15, 2007 3:50 AM

ya well i find that cockfighting one of the cruelest sports ever why don't u scum that call yourselves humans put yourself in an animals place and then see if you like being killed. I eat meat but cockfighting and shooting race horses and greyhounds is more than cruel its damn right sick and you lot who call yourselves a buisness when it comes to harming animals is just plain sick you fools got something wrong with you I mean once a tiger bit a mans hand off and everyones mad at the tiger, that tiger didn't go crazy! that tiger went tiger! when you lot start looking up to animals then your have a heart you dirty pieces of scum

Posted by: Bpj | August 18, 2007 11:41 AM

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