Might I suggest you purchase a copy of Philip Jose framer’s semenal work A Feast Unknown :eek:
Hey, what the fuck did I ever do to you?
You mean subsidizing cruelty for charity? Kind of like if the state sanctioned pay-per-view child pornography as long as the cashflow was put to charitable uses?
I’d be speculating if I claimed that permitting cockfighting (or other cruel, mediaeval pastimes) kept poor, downtrodden people from lifting themselves up. But it surely isn’t going to contribute to lifting them up.
Sailboat
According to Louisiana law, cockfighting doesn’t fall under animal cruelty because fowl are not considered animals. LA Revised Statute 14:102.1 
Look at section D.
God, I’m so proud to be a native.
I picture him uttering this around a mouthful of greasy possum.
What’s left, though? Plants, fungi, and protozoa?
Ah, let 'em ban cockfighting! We’ve still got bear-baiting, it’s way better! 
Eh? What’s that?
Score another point for cultural bigots and animal rights extremists.
Game roosters will still be fought in the mainland US whether it’s legal or not. It’s a felony in OK, and I know for a fact that it still occurs there. It still remains legal in Guam (long knife) and Puerto Rico (postiza), both US territories.
What I wonder, is where is HSUS going to focus next? Make matching game roosters a felony across the US? Make it illegal in US territories? Make horse slaughter for animal consumption illegal (you do realize that we still export them for slaughter and slaughter them here for animal consumption)? Factory farms? Maybe trapping?
How did the prof react?
Well, there’s also minerals. Although some authorities now classify the chicken as an extremely intricate form of prion. This is why so many animals are said to ‘taste like chicken’-- their cells have become infected with high concentrations of chicken molecules.
Bear baiting is legal where in the US?
For a board dedicated to fighting ignorance, it sure seems that there is a tremendous amount of it here. In this thread, besides me and Paul in Saudi, who’s even been to a cockfight?
No they won’t. I’ve seen a few thousand cockfights. That line doesn’t even make sense. To excite them, you’ll hold them to face another rooster, and they’ll peck at each other.
Ojinaga, just across the Mexico border from Presidio. Pretty rough crowd, that.
WHOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSHHHHHHH!
Well, at least they’ll keep your boy out of trouble.
Not surprisingly, she didn’t. She thought it was serious. Yeah, she was that humorless.
That’s fascinating and all I’m sure, but the guy giving the report was entirely not talking about real cockfighting. It was a juvenile (yet hilarious) practical joke.
Photographs will be taken of fat guys fucking kindergartners whether it’s legal or not.
Their mommas told them not to.
Waianae, Hawaii… way off the road and illegal in Hawaii. Very rough crowd, that.
Daet, Philippines. Although legal in the Philippines, still a pretty rough crowd.
You’re using this argument on the SDMB? The old “we can’t make murder/drug use/child abuse illegal because I know for a fact it will still take place?” Coupled with the old “my culture does it so you’re a cultural bigot if you don’t like it”?
Dude, those are discredited arguments. For example, we’re NOT going to legalize female “circumcision”, child sex workers, dueling, or whatever, just because some cultures do these things.
Make an argument that cockfighting accomplishes some social benefit, but don’t call us bigots for not liking a cruel, savage practice. Or if you do, why not go into the gladiatorial pit yourself; the Romans would pay to watch you fight. Don’t be a cultural bigot!
Sailboat