 "The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)")
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Close cruel loophole.(Editorials)(Oregon bans cockfighting, but not raising birds)(Editorial)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR); 2/11/2003; 456 words
; ...spectators. Raising game birds for cockfighting, however, is still allowed in Oregon...HB 2086 would elevate the crime of cockfighting, currently a misdemeanor, to a Class...Philippines and other countries where cockfighting is legal. In fact, many of them are...
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Cockfighting ban.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 3/9/2007; ; 252 words
; ...bishops in New Mexico are supporting a bill that will ban cockfighting (NCR, Feb. 2). We think it's long past time the church finally...themselves and that only humans and their desires mattered. Cockfighting is, according to the bishops, abusive to God's good creation...
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Bishops blast cockfighting.(U.S. BRIEFS)(New Mexico Conference of Catholic Bishops)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 2/2/2007; 145 words
; ...New Mexico Conference of Catholic Bishops has endorsed a state senate bill that would ban cockfighting. The [state's] bishops recognize that cockfighting is abusive of God's good creation, Allen Sanchez, conference executive director, said in...
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Nine months ago, the Honolulu Police Department put five officers on paid leave while the FBI investigated whether they had accepted money from illegal cockfighting operations.(Brickbats)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: Reason; 5/1/2006; ; 39 words
; Nine months ago, the Honolulu Police Department put five officers on paid leave while the FBI investigated whether they had accepted money from illegal cockfighting operations. So far the idle cops have received about a quarter of a million dollars.
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Something to crow about.(Stateline)(cockfighting rules)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: State Legislatures; 4/1/2005; 111 words
; ...roosters to wear while they go at each other. Cute? Serious? Yes. Oklahoma Senator Frank Shurden, a long-time defender of cockfighting, said the ban against it passed back in 2002 has wiped out a $100 million business. This is his attempt at bringing it back...
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Bleeding into the mainstream: how John McCain popularized human cockfighting.(Columns)(Ultimate Fighting Championship)
Magazine article from: Reason; 10/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; LAST DECEMBER AT Ultimate Fighting Championship 66, in the first round of a many-holds-barred, mixed martial arts grudge match between the evenly weighted gladiators Chuck Liddell and Tito Ortiz, the former floored the latter with a gloved right hook that had been fully sanctioned by the Nevada
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Fighting birds, fighting words.(Politics)(Breeders and animal welfare groups debate new restrictions on raising poultry)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR); 2/21/2003; 700+ words
; ...to urge lawmakers to crack down on cockfighting, reviving an effort that fell short...Committee that although Oregon already bans cockfighting, the law needs to be tightened. A loophole...interstate transport of birds used for cockfighting. Kelly Peterson, a lobbyist for the...
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BRIEFLY.(General News)(NORTHWEST)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR); 3/6/2003; 92 words
; Byline: The Register-Guard Bill to ban cockfighting passes House committee SALEM - Raising birds for cockfighting would be banned in Oregon under a...across state lines. It also would make cockfighting a felony, elevating the crime from...
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Raid nets guns, drugs, fighting cocks.(Crime)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR); 9/18/2002; 332 words
; ...plants, illegal weapons and evidence of cockfighting. The Interagency Narcotics Enforcement...several roosters apparently used in cockfighting, the sergeant said. Each rooster was...legs of fighting roosters - and other cockfighting equipment, Thoming said. They also...
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Fighters hit back at cage bout critics.
Newspaper article from: Peterborough Evening Telegraph (Peterborough, England); 9/7/2007; 417 words
; ...defended a brutal sport which doctors have described as human cockfighting and want banning. The British Medical Association (BMA) has...can be extremely brutal and has been described as 'human cockfighting'. It can cause traumatic brain injury, joint injuries and...
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