I don't see animal cruelty here because in the first place, these fighting cocks are treated well. It's hard to breed fighting cocks for a purpose on that. Breeders are spending lots of money here and in the end, they will just show cruelty on their own fighting cocks lol.
Living things bred for a purpose, that they don't have any control for. If you want to look at evolution, they wasn't meant to be bred for a specific purpose. I mean, I know the counter argument to this is that we breed animals all the time to eat produce or harvest certain materials from them. However, breeding something to basically fight, and as far as I know fight to the death in most cases? That doesn't sit right with me. Personally, I'm quite shocked the amount of users here talking about the money aspect, rather than the morality of it all.
Personally, I couldn't care about the money aspect. A question to ask would be if it brings money into the country, and benefits people that would otherwise be poor, is that a real reason to basically condemn an animal to this way of life? Effectively it's for gambling, which you could question if that's moral, especially when it hasn't been implemented with the upmost due diligence.
I know as humans we've tended to use animals in history as a way of entertainment, and we still do. Although, personally for me I'm not a fan of the animals being bred to fight to the death. Even, the bulls which are penned in, and then agitated purposely to get a show. Also, not a fan of that.
One the one hand you have animal cruelty and gambling addiction and on the other hand you have extra Tax income for the government. How will the people feel, if a school was built on the tax income from lives that was ruined by gambling addiction and animal cruelty?
This will never happen in 1st world countries where people are more distanced from the cruelty that are connected to animal slaughter for their meat. They are too sensitized and pre-occupied with animal rights and tree hugging ..than in 3rd world countries.
You make good points, and I've thought about this. It definitely does do good, but at what cost? I mean, shouldn't we be striving to make money at as little cost to other life around us as possible? I'm sure there's other things they could be pouring money into to better the country, because no doubt there was money being poured into this sport from all over.
The good point you do make is, we do harvest animals for food. This happens all over the world, and despite improving awareness about the conditions these animals are put in, it's still universally bad. There's also definitely moral questions to be asked about this situation. For the record, I say that as a non vegetarian.