What are your thoughts on cockfighting?

[tread93]

Cockfighting is extremely popular in my country, the Philippines. In fact, it's a multi-billion peso industry, and if it were to be shut down, many ordinary citizens would be affected. It's said that cockfighting existed even before the Spanish conquest, which is why I believe it's deeply embedded in our culture and tradition, making it difficult to simply put an end to it.

Although many people say that cockfighting is cruel to animals, setting that issue aside and focusing on the event itself, I find it incredibly thrilling. The matches can be highly addictive—especially if you have a genuine passion for these birds.

Your thoughts?

Honestly, aside from all the animal activists and stuff I would imagine cock fighting would be Hella fun to watch and bet on with your boys hahaha. As much as I hate to say that I Honestly think it would be incredibly entertaining at least until it became sickening and im sure there is a point when it becomes very intense and probably too much to watch.

[rbynxx]

Although many people say that cockfighting is cruel to animals, setting that issue aside and focusing on the event itself, I find it incredibly thrilling. The matches can be highly addictive—especially if you have a genuine passion for these birds.

Your thoughts?

Yeah it's cruel but if it's setting the cruelty aside it's not that different on other gamble you bet into. I'm a gambler myself with this and it's just a year or so that I've been into this and got some fighting cocks in my backyard but they are raised to have longer years before they are actually fight in the cockpit. Yeah people will not agree but it's like embedded in the roots of people here and government has no way to end it or not just yet.

[₿itcoin]

Absolutely terrible entertainment is the one where you bet on animals fighting, because it is both a disgusting spectacle and a pointless activity in itself. I don't want to hear that this is a cultural heritage of our ancestors and requires respect, because it is violence against animals that cannot defend themselves, and therefore it is unfair to them.
This is a very bad example for children. I would never understand if I saw a father taking his child to such entertainment.

you know it is not just disgusting entertainment, it is also a human & animal rights epidemic. in here usa it is outlawed  & banned almost all state, as well as spectators & sharp equipment are criminalized & it is also a federal crime to take children below the age of 16 to these fights. I've seen some places in France, where some regional exceptions are accepted but new arenas are strictly prohibited. The inclusion of kids can be traumatizing to them.

https://www.expressnews.com/opinion/commentary/article/decriminalize-cockfighting-texas-19993471.php
Texas Sheriffs Association denounced its psychological effects and tied it to violent crime, demanding stricter legislation. Hence, it is not about heritage or cultural tolerance but it is inhumane, against the law and child protection in one bad package.

[cande86]

Cockfighting is extremely popular in my country, the Philippines. In fact, it's a multi-billion peso industry, and if it were to be shut down, many ordinary citizens would be affected. It's said that cockfighting existed even before the Spanish conquest, which is why I believe it's deeply embedded in our culture and tradition, making it difficult to simply put an end to it.

Although many people say that cockfighting is cruel to animals, setting that issue aside and focusing on the event itself, I find it incredibly thrilling. The matches can be highly addictive?especially if you have a genuine passion for these birds.

Your thoughts?

Honestly, aside from all the animal activists and stuff I would imagine cock fighting would be Hella fun to watch and bet on with your boys hahaha. As much as I hate to say that I Honestly think it would be incredibly entertaining at least until it became sickening and im sure there is a point when it becomes very intense and probably too much to watch.

This is a merciless thing and it will surely make many people discuss it, I think it's absurd how people take pleasure in all this, especially because these animals die or are exploited until they are exhausted which doesn't make it fun. in fact it makes everything disgusting

[Forsyth Jones]

This type of betting is completely absurd, it's practically animal torture,  and I abhor it with all my strength. The organizers of this event should be criminally punished.

If you want to bet, there are plenty of more entertaining games at any self-respecting casino. Leave the animals alone!

[Cantsay]

Your thoughts?

Cock fighting was something we watched as a kid and did find a little delight in it, but I never thought of it as something we would instigate ourselves and even go as far as bet on it, if we saw it happening naturally we’d all watch and even sometimes separate them because we have seen some of them fight to the extent that one of them was badly injured so when we see a natural fight ensuing we’d try as much as possible to monitor and the moment it gets out of hand, we’d keep them apart from each other.

So for me, cock fighting is a no go area for me, I don’t like the idea of people causing the fight to happen or putting cocks together so they could fight and probably injured themselves - they don’t have any thinking ability to prevent such fighting so I don’t think it’s good for them.

[sunsilk]

Yeah it's cruel but if it's setting the cruelty aside it's not that different on other gamble you bet into. I'm a gambler myself with this and it's just a year or so that I've been into this and got some fighting cocks in my backyard but they are raised to have longer years before they are actually fight in the cockpit.

Then that speaks that you're a certified cockfighting bettor and as well as a cockfighting raiser. I think that you've invested a lot on it because they're not cheap to buy and raise them in your backyard.

I'm not sure but there are raises on it that are quality and that's why most of the owners are taking it seriously because of knowing the value of their cockfighting roosters.

Yeah people will not agree but it's like embedded in the roots of people here and government has no way to end it or not just yet.

If government tries to ban it, the community will raise about cultural differences and they're not respecting it.

[tvplus006]

This type of betting is completely absurd, it's practically animal torture,  and I abhor it with all my strength. The organizers of this event should be criminally punished...

It's hard for you to accept this because you're not a Filipino. For the inhabitants of this country, sabong is part of the traditional culture, just as bullfighting is for the inhabitants of Spain, where the ultimate goal is to kill a bull.

[DaNNy001]

My family actually loves to gamble on this, but I don’t.. for the simple reason that I believe animals shouldn’t be hurt. There can be other types of betting, but it shouldn’t involve killing animals. I don’t tell them to stop what they’re doing, but I just don’t follow that kind of gambling.

I’m also a gambler myself, but I stick to sports betting instead of cockfighting.

In our country, cockfighting is already part of the culture… just not a culture I personally like.

It's an irritating and not a sight to behold for a lot of people...but a lot of gamblers dont consider this to be a big deal because they are just animals at that end of the day...in your country it's a culture and in other countries it might be against their culture...theree are countries that believe in preserving animals, this kind of game would be a violation to the rules and standards that they abide to in that country

[LDL]

This type of betting is completely absurd, it's practically animal torture,  and I abhor it with all my strength. The organizers of this event should be criminally punished.

If you want to bet, there are plenty of more entertaining games at any self-respecting casino. Leave the animals alone!

If cockfighting were universally accepted, it would be popular in many parts of the world, but cockfighting still takes place in very few places in the world. Punitive measures must be taken against them. Cruelty to animals is never acceptable, and disciplinary action should be taken against those who organize cockfighting, and against casinos and gambling sites that arrange bets on cockfighting.

[2Pizza410000BTC]

Cockfighting is extremely popular in my country, the Philippines. In fact, it's a multi-billion peso industry, and if it were to be shut down, many ordinary citizens would be affected. It's said that cockfighting existed even before the Spanish conquest, which is why I believe it's deeply embedded in our culture and tradition, making it difficult to simply put an end to it.

Although many people say that cockfighting is cruel to animals, setting that issue aside and focusing on the event itself, I find it incredibly thrilling. The matches can be highly addictive—especially if you have a genuine passion for these birds.

Your thoughts?

I don't have much experience with cockfighting because I have never seen a cockfight, but when I hear from our ancestors, they say that they saw cockfighting and that cockfighting was also popular in our country. Maybe cockfighting was popular in our country during the time of our ancestors, which is why they were very addicted and they used to hold cockfights season after season, but nowadays cockfighting is no longer seen, maybe this cockfighting game has been lost in the crowd of different games.

Although the game seems interesting, I still say that such a game should not be organized here by two animals who are ignorant because I have heard that it becomes bloody. I have also heard from my ancestors that when a cockfight starts, no rooster wants to lose, even if it becomes bloody, in some places it is heard that it can even die, so it is better not to organize all these games, no matter how much fun there is here. Because one should show love to ignorant animals and birds.

[o48o]

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Although many people say that cockfighting is cruel to animals, setting that issue aside and focusing on the event itself, I find it incredibly thrilling. The matches can be highly addictive—especially if you have a genuine passion for these birds.

Your thoughts?

It's not that many people say it, it's because it literally is cruel to animals. Even if animals would attack each other in nature, in this case aren't given a choice to exit. There's no consent, because if there was, they probably wouldn't fight as fiercely.
 
Any inhumane and cruel can be "thrilling" and addictive, especially for people who have low empathy skills. Public executions were a big thrill back in days as well and part of the culture. If there's a will there's a way to quit it.

[Nothingtodo]

This type of betting is completely absurd, it's practically animal torture,  and I abhor it with all my strength. The organizers of this event should be criminally punished...

It's hard for you to accept this because you're not a Filipino. For the inhabitants of this country, sabong is part of the traditional culture, just as bullfighting is for the inhabitants of Spain, where the ultimate goal is to kill a bull.

Very serious, especially in a bullfight where two bulls are so injured that their deaths are inevitable. Bullfighting may have been seen in the past, but now it may be seen in some regional areas, but it has been banned by a government. Cockfighting, like bullfighting, is a brutal sport, and when two roosters compete, they injure each other, resulting in death. Although we enjoy these sports for the temporary pleasure, in reality they are cruel to our animals.

[Distinctin]

Just my thought, how can you be genuinely passionate when you are seeing another bird is killed just for your bet to be profitable? You know I understand your love for cockfighting, but the fact that we are seeing a blood sport that would encourage another cock to fight to death, for me that’s extremely animal cruelty. We can still enjoy seeing a fight without flowing blood on the court, which is for me more comfortable to bet compared to cockfighting.

[Akbarkoe]

Cockfighting is quite popular, especially in Asia, where it is deeply intertwined with tradition and culture. Despite widespread criticism, not only for gambling but also for animal cruelty, cockfighting remains a popular form of gambling, and online betting is now even available. I enjoy betting, but not for animal cruelty. It's quite difficult to quit cockfighting completely. And if we don't like cockfighting, we can at least avoid betting on it online and offline. This is a small step towards preventing cockfighting from growing, and cockfighting persists because there are people betting. In reality, they simply use tradition and culture as a bulwark to keep cockfighting going.

[Hispo]

Just my thought, how can you be genuinely passionate when you are seeing another bird is killed just for your bet to be profitable? You know I understand your love for cockfighting, but the fact that we are seeing a blood sport that would encourage another cock to fight to death, for me that’s extremely animal cruelty. We can still enjoy seeing a fight without flowing blood on the court, which is for me more comfortable to bet compared to cockfighting.

Part of the passion also comes from the process of breeding and training ones roosters to fight, by the way. I know that because I have had family members who had been pretty involved within the world of cockfighting, and they took training of their animals very seriously, it may also have to do with the fact owners of the roosters usually get the most profit with the animal manage to become an actual champion and defeats several cocks in a good streak.
If one manages to successfully breed, raise and train them, one could easily get several thousands of dollars out a single rooster, it is a passion and also a very profitable business.

[qwertyup23]

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Although many people say that cockfighting is cruel to animals, setting that issue aside and focusing on the event itself, I find it incredibly thrilling. The matches can be highly addictive—especially if you have a genuine passion for these birds.

Your thoughts?

I can somehow relate to this bet given that I was raised in this kind of household.

Just a quick backstory, my grandfather used to own a farm where they exclusively and primarily raise chickens for fighting. We would often visit that farm and see my father training those chickens inside a mini-ring they constructed on the middle of the farm. I also remember vividly that my father used to bring the whole family into stadiums where he would participate and bring at least five (5) chickens with him.

The question is- do I find it cruel? I would answer in the affirmative given that we are using the life of an animal primarily for our bets. Like we all know, there are dozens of way to bet (e.g. cards, slots, sports, etc.) and we could play those games instead of subjecting chickens to fight for their deaths.

[Fivestar4everMVP]

Cockfighting is extremely popular in my country, the Philippines. In fact, it's a multi-billion peso industry, and if it were to be shut down, many ordinary citizens would be affected. It's said that cockfighting existed even before the Spanish conquest, which is why I believe it's deeply embedded in our culture and tradition, making it difficult to simply put an end to it.

Although many people say that cockfighting is cruel to animals, setting that issue aside and focusing on the event itself, I find it incredibly thrilling. The matches can be highly addictive—especially if you have a genuine passion for these birds.

Your thoughts?

Well, thank goodness you mentioned having passion for the birds fighting, i honestly do not find anything thrilling about cockfighting, though I've never watch any of such match live before aside from the fact that I usually do see some cocks come at each other here in my compound and even on the streets, but here in Nigeria, I do not think there is any such thing as cockfighting match existing any where or in any parts of the country.

But all the same, I am happy that you guys in Philippines enjoy this as a game, that is, loving to watch cocks fight each other while you guys even bet on which of this cocks is likely to win the fighting match.
Maybe I would have loved and find find this type of game thrilling to watch if I was from Philippines and have gotten used to seeing this all the time, but unfortunately I am not, and the first time I watch a cockfighting match on YouTube, I disliked it and have returned to watch such again, I find it rather gross to watch cocks tear each other simply for entertainment.

[2Pizza410000BTC]

This type of betting is completely absurd, it's practically animal torture,  and I abhor it with all my strength. The organizers of this event should be criminally punished.

If you want to bet, there are plenty of more entertaining games at any self-respecting casino. Leave the animals alone!

I completely agree with you because this type of betting is completely absurd. Cockfighting is not actually a sport, it is a form of animal cruelty. And I do not support participating in this type of betting at all. I have never participated in this type of sport and I have not received much for playing and betting on this type of cockfighting on casino platforms. However, it is fair to say that if the organizers of this event are severely punished, maybe many will fear their punishment and this type of cockfighting will stop torturing animals. There are many sports for betting, so it is better not to indulge in questionable torture by participating in this type of cockfighting betting.

[libert19]

... Aftercall the injuries they get is not so severe because its coming from their fellow specie.

Did you not see blades up their legs?

It is funny when we see people justify the cruelty to animals by integrating the idea of hypocrisy about eating meat.  As we see, there are lots of differences between harming animals by means of entertainment and butchering them for survival.  Anyone can push the idea of farming animals for food, and raising them for a death match entertainment is the same thing but they are not.  One is to sustain nutrients needed by people, while the other is to sustain the excitement felt from seeing two animals fight to the death.  There is a huge difference between needs and distorted desire.

Meat is not a need, you deffo don't need it for survival; vegetarian communities exist and they live fine (I was going to mention veganism too, but not completely sure of this diet yet).