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Tue 10 Mar, 2009 09:32 pm
One year ago the state of New Mexico banned cock fighting (a cockfight is when two roosters fitted with blades or gaffs on their legs are placed into a pit and fight until one is dead or badly wounded. Although gambling on the fights is illegal, spectators openly wager on the outcome.)
Cockfighting fans have accused (Govenor) Richardson of taking a sudden interest in cockfighting because he was seeking the Democratic nomination for president. They also defend cockfighting as a family activity and said opponents were meddling.
"I'm so upset that it's damn near ruining my life," said Ronald Barron, president of the New Mexico Game Fowl Association. "I've got 38 years doing this. I don't know if I should hatch off some baby chicks right now. This isn't a business. It's my pleasure. It's my right, or rather it was my right."
@dyslexia,
Ah...tormenting animals for human pleasure....it's a man's christian duty.
If it were in my power I would confiscate all of his chickens. We would have chicken and dumplings regularly.
@edgarblythe,
You'd not make them kill each other for the pot, would you?
@dlowan,
You mean, he doesn't give them the opportunity to fight for survival? For shame.
It's almost as bad as UFC -- except that's HUMAN cockfighting!
@dyslexia,
dyslexia wrote:"I'm so upset that it's damn near ruining my life," said Ronald Barron, president of the New Mexico Game Fowl Association.
Face it, Ron, when you're president of the
New Mexico Game Fowl Association, your life is already teetering on the brink of ruin. You're but one more estranged child away from a long night in a minivan in the desert, with a bottle of bourbon and a shotgun, reliving all your mistakes.
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