but here’s some non-Peta info about the irresponsibility of the fishing industry and how it impacts the environment and the seafood industry:
http://montereybayaquarium.com/cr/cr_seafoodwatch/sfw_issues.asp

not to mention that due to pollution, the mercury levels in fish is extremely dangerous for human consumption. even if you don’t give a shit about the life of a fish, you should care about yourself enough to not poison your body.
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/11/17/waste_dump/index.html

That said, I don’t have a problem with cockfights, and it IS a a part of Oklahoma culture. I don’t have a lot of empathy for chickens, but even if I did, I would think they would have a better life fighting than they would cramped in concrete cages, their beaks burned off, being pumped full of antibiotics and hormones, waiting to die. At least a cockfight afford to chance to go out in a blaze of glory.

And is there not some merit to the slippery slope argument? If you can outlaw a recreational activity that kills chickens, isn’t there a way to interpret that as a precedent that you can outlaw a recreational activity that kills deer and fowl (hunting), or even fish?

A bit of an overreaction, perhaps, but it’s conceivable. This is an atmosphere in which PETA is launching a campaign to stop people from eating fish, because fish can feel pain and are as intelligent as any other animal. LINK

Fish? Gimme a break.

An unpopular opinion, perhaps, but there it is.

The establishment Democratic Party choice for our last Senate election was Chris John, a trucking co. owner from Crowley, LA (right smack in the middle of Cajun country), who has been the greatest friend to cockfighting interests in the state of Louisiana (and even in the federal government on some shipping issues regarding gamecocks). I voted for another Democrat in the race, but I couldn’t be disappointed that one of the last men in the country who is willing to go to the mat for cockfighting interests was soundly defeated in our state, even if the price was ceding a Senate seat to a Republican for the first time in the history of non-Reconstruction Louisiana politics.

As for that culture war crap, on election day this year we also passed a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to hunt and fish. Maybe that was a reaction to all the anti-cockfighting rhetoric that hit our airwaves from animal rights groups during the last year or so.

I love a good pun!