Is Game of Fowl More Foul Than Play?; Arizona Vote Pits Cockfighting Tradition Against Animal-Rights Advocates From: The Washington Post | Date: November 1, 1998| Author: Paul Duggan | Copyright 1998 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

Belton Hodges was annoyed, and when annoyed he tends to get testy: "Don't you tell me the public knows what cockfighting is!" he declared. "The public doesn't know the first damn thing about cockfighting!"

In his South Phoenix rambler, he reached for an old coffee mug he keeps on a shelf next to his chair and spat tobacco into it. "The unknowing public; that's what I call them," he said. "Unknowing."

Hodges was riled up because animal-welfare advocates here have been ca...

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