LiveCockFights.com

LiveCockFights.com is a website that transmits live cockfighting from Puerto Rico. It was launched in 2007.

Club Gallistico

LiveCockFights.com is broadcast from Club Gallistico , a professional cockpit arena in Puerto Rico, where cockfighting is still legal. This website is now gone and the domain now points to some lame boxing site.

History

Not only is cock fighting illegal in 49 states, the Legislature in Louisiana, where the practice is still allowed, passed a bill that will outlaw the sport there next year. In 1999 President Bill Clinton signed a law that made it a criminal act to create, sell, or possess any depictions of animal cruelty. It is a felony to use any photograph, video, computer image, movie or audio recording depicting the intentional maiming, torturing, wounding or killing of an animal, and that presumably includes cockfighting.

Media Coverage

There has been a fair amount of media coverage on the debate to broadcast the cockfights over the Internet, including a July 11, 2007 report by the New York Times on the legal ambiguities concerning the federal law. [ [ http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/11/us/11roosters.html?ex=1190088000&en=b68da69816a50d35&ei=5070] , New York Times, July 11, 2007]

The federal government's indictment of NFL Quarterback Michael Vick on dog-fighting charges has only magnified media attention on LiveCockFights.com. Animal advocacy groups like the Humane Society and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals have condemned the broadcasting of a sport in which two roosters hack at each other with metal or bone spurs. [ [ http://www.miamiherald.com/418/story/171075.html] , Fred Grimm, Miami Herald] [ [ http://cbs4.com/video/?id=[e-mail]] , CBS News] [ [http://potw.news.yahoo.com/s/potw/41678/playing-chicken] , People of the Web: Playing Chicken ]

References

External links

* [http://www.LiveCockFights.com Live Cock Fights Official site]