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Not exact matches
While
cockfighting has been a felony offense in Texas, major loopholes in the law allowed the activity to flourish, and made Texas a magnet for criminal cockfighters who come from neighboring states where the penalties were
more severe.
Campaigns that became particularly heated involved
cockfighting and
more than a dozen years of efforts to win passage of a law against eating dogs and cats.
Avian diseases accidentally imported in connection with
cockfighting also had a part in the loss of native Hawaiian birds, but blaming cats and feral mongooses, introduced to Hawaii in 1883 to hunt rats on sugar cane plantations, has long been
more politically convenient than challenging the practices of Hawaii's biggest export industries.