The Oklahoma legislature could reduce penalties for cockfighting. Advocates say that Texas also has a problem with cockfighting, thanks to recent Dallas arrests.
are trying to reduce criminal penalties for dogfighting and cockfighting.
Osburn told ABC affiliate KTUL that the ultimate goal of his bill is to “bring Oklahoma into the 21st century.” In response to criticism over the penalty reductions for animal fighting, Osburn told the news station, “We have no intention of reducing any penalties on animal cruelty or anything like that."
Pacelle thought to himself at the time: “This is ridiculous. How can we have a serious animal welfare movement and not address illegal cockfighting in the United States?”In 1976, Congress added dogfighting and cockfighting provisions to the Animal Welfare Act to try to address staged animal fights on the federal level. The law banned the interstate transport of dogs or live birds for fighting. However, the federal government wouldn’t go after cockfighting in any state where it was legal.
Now, Pacelle and others are advocating for an amendment to the federal Farm Bill that would allow private citizens to bring civil suits against cockfighters and dogfighters if there’s no federal law enforcement action against them. Pacelle and his organization do their best to track cockfights in the U.S. and the people who make them possible. “We know exactly what’s going on,” he said. “There’s an enormous illegal cockfighting industry that’s barely underground in the United States.”
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