QUOTE (Grace @ May 10 2010, 09:01 AM)

Steve
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Grace you are indeed a fucking idiot. I can kill em and eat em and that is hunky dorey but let em kill one another and oh my GOD how horrible!!!
Yes it is horrible this butchery called cockfighting is entertainment. But there's a difference between killing for the sake of killing, which serves no purpose except to entertain a bunch of neandrathals stuck in "tradition", and killing for food. Do we allow food animals to battle it out to death in a ring? And just because something is tradition for thousands of years isn't valid reason to continue another thousand. There is a tradition of cutting off the clitoris of young African girls, so this too we must keep as well? Tradition doesn't make it right. It's sick to take pleasure, place bets, hoot and holler while watching an animal suffer and die. You are morally bankrupt.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnfNAFPvHVc...feature=related"A certain amount of aggression between chickens is normal and chickens from different genetic
strains or breeds do show different levels of aggression; for example commercial Broiler- Layer
types do show much less male to male aggression than game-type roosters, However male to
female and male to male aggression is much more pronounced in the broiler breeder roosters. In
addition to animal welfare concerns associated with hen injury and mortality, rising levels of
aggressiveness by broiler breeder males present several problems for producers, relating to
management and to profitability:
1. Hens become fearful of aggressive roosters and avoid them by remaining on the raised
slatted areas of the house. As a result, flock fertility can decrease dramatically.
2. Avoidance of roosters by hens exacerbates the problem so that when hens move off the
slats and into the scratch areas, groups of roosters "mob" and attempt to mate with them.
During these forced mating attempts, hens are injured, and sometimes killed.
3. Hen productivity is likely to be reduced as a result of stress and injuries due to avoidance
of aggressive roosters.
4.Injured hens are more prone to infection and disease, since their wounds quickly become
contaminated. This can make them more likely to be condemned by processing plants at the end
of he lay.
Sorce: Animal Welfare Dilemma of Broiler Breeder Aggressiveness
by Suzanne T. Millman, Ph.D."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnfNAFPvHVc...feature=related