Psst: Wanna see some rooster porn?
Police and the SPCA just busted a cockfighting ring in Surrey (a suburb of Vancouver), killed 1270 gamecocks and are contemplating charges against 38 people; the SPCA and all their self-righteous fellow travelers are strutting about with an aggressive arrogance normally displayed only by the birds they have so mercifully euthanized.
Cockfighting is an important part of the culture in many parts of the world and, when you think about it, not a bit more cruel than hunting and fishing. Canada is full of hypocritical people who eat Chicken McNuggets and eggs produced by battery hens, but have never had the moral courage to chop the head off a rooster. These phonies are imposing criminal sanctions on immigrants who are more closely in touch with the earth, and that is wrong.
Was it the moral thing to do, killing 1270 roosters? Did anyone ask the birds if they wanted to die? Were they evil? Couldn't someone adopt them? The RCMP and SPCA should concentrate on real crime and nuisance animals. I have found both agencies useless when dealing with barking and biting dogs, especially cases where owners allow their canines to run loose or bark all night.
These roosters spar while wearing leather balls on their legs to get used to the weight and feel of spurs. They are getting exercise and fight training much the same as boxers do. In the cockpit, they will wear razor sharp steel spurs and only one bird will survive. I know a man whose bird won 16 fights (obviously, no losses) , making him moderately wealthy and well respected in certain circles.
To guard against a handler putting poison on the spurs, each handler is often required to lick the spurs of his own bird before the fight. Sometimes the spurs are stuck into a lime for the same reason.
Labels: cockfighting, rooster porn
posted by Ken Erickson at 1:16 AM
3 Comments:
Cultural or not, it's illegal in Canada and people are expected to obey the law. If you feel that people shouldn't have to obey the law, make your case to the cops and the politicians. I'm sure they'll be all ears.
Wife beating is a time-honoured tradition in many societies, as are so-called honour killings. I suppose you have a problem that they aren't legal here also.
SPCA people were mandated by law to euthanize the animals they found. Chalk that one up to the Criminal code too, doubtless designed to protect society's suppliers of Chicken McNuggets and baskets of wings from an imaginary risk of disease infiltrating Canada's flock of battery chickens. (So you can set your culturally-sensitive mind at ease: the mass killing was done because people are more important than animals so it must be okay after all, right?).
SPCA people doubtless cried more tears for those roosters and that situation than those operators ever did for the animals they maimed and tortured to line their filthy pockets.
Consider catch and release fishing: capturing, maiming and torturing a fish purely for enjoyment, without even the intention of eating it. Bow hunting, where an animal is shot with an arrow specifically designed to cause it to slowly bleed to death. Firearms also result in many agonizing wounds and slow deaths. Doesn't everyone in the hunting and fishing industry also have filthy pockets which they are lining by maiming and torturing animals? So why is all that not illegal?
I, myself am a keen hunter, with a camera: look at the links on my website to see some of my bird and animal trophies.
I am against wife beating, child beating and honor killings because those things are done to people. But anyone who consumes animal products is making a statement that animal lives are expendable. I make the point that gamecocks live many times longer than meat chickens, which are killed at 8 to 12 weeks and never even see natural grass and sunshine. Gamecocks do not even fight until they are nearly 2 years old. If a rooster could choose a career, would he choose to be a broiler chicken?
If the rationale for killing the gamecocks was to prevent the spread of disease, then why were the birds just left lying on the property when the slaughter was finished? When flocks were destroyed to prevent the spread of bird flu, it was not done by the SPCA, and the carcasses were disposed of in a sanitary manner. In fact, the illegality of cockfighting is a prescription for the spread of disease, with possibly infected birds and eggs being clandestinely moved around the world.
By the way, chat noir, you would be more persuasive if you used your real name, instead of hiding behind a nom de plume in Ottawa. The macaw and I have the courage of our convictions and our picture is on my blog for all to see. (Well, maybe I shouldn't speak for the macaw). In case you are wondering, she is not a fighting parrot, but she bites anybody who pisses her off.
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