Sentences with phrase «on cockfighting»

It still sheds light on cockfighting — one of its first causes — and speaks out against factory farms and horse euthanasia.

The new laws signed by the governor strengthen the Texas statutes to crack down on cockfighting, provide standards for large - scale dog breeding operations, and upgrade the animal cruelty laws.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork / AP)-- Three weekend raids just might have led to the first in a series of arrests aimed at cracking down on cockfighting in New York, state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said Monday.

Whatever one thinks of cockfighting, the suggestion is that a spirit is alive and well in Oklahoma that is largely dead in other parts of the country that are inclined to look down on the likes of Representative Martin Odom of Hitchita who says a ban on cockfighting could lead to outlawing «the rifle for hunting, the hook for fishing, the rope for rodeo calves, and the spurs on cowboys.»

Not exact matches

Given that Senator John McCain, who famously called MMA «human cockfighting» and a «blood sport», called for a nationwide ban in the US, which fell on deaf ears, should the UK government ban MMA and professional boxing as some other nations, such as Sweden, have?

A couple of bird brains broke into barn housing chickens confiscated in a massive raid on upstate cockfighting ring this week and tried to bust the roosters out of the joint — only to find themselves behind bars.

The family welcomes Gabriel home, but from the first moments of his arrival, he projects a violent, hair - trigger temper; relentless, psychopathic bursts of unchecked anger; and a sadistic obsession with inflicting pain and cruelty on everything and everyone around him — from squelching live mice beneath his heels to strangling the neck of a chicken that he seizes during a cockfight.

There's vengeance of merciless zen as whiplash kicks sound like sneezes, punches 5/11/2018 The Ninja trilogy — blu - ray reviews for VideoVista at videovista.net http://web.archive.org/web/20160409091654/http://www.videovista.net/reviews/jan16/ninjatril.html 3/5 are played on a cardboard drum kit, and a local cockfighting arena is a wellchosen venue for the decisive showdown.

When first we met Zach Galifianakis on the set of Warner Bros.» The Hangover Part III, he was crashing into a stack of crates and sending cockfighting roosters into a tizzy.

On the way to that fadeout epiphany, Kemp and Sala, his Sancho Panza, experience cockfights, car chases, jail, breath - igniting hooch, an hermaphroditic oracle and a mind - altering substance «so powerful they give it to the communists.»

Adapted from the Zoë Heller novel, it reminds of screenwriter Patrick Marber's Closer and how Mike Nichols's film adaptation similarly suffered from a gradual slackening of shock with the realization that its umbrella of misanthropy doesn't cast a dark shadow on all of us so much as it provides a vicarious thrill, like watching a cockfight, say, or a mantis eating its mate: though foul, its pungency is isolatable.

Without money to feed her son, Ali teaches him to «dine and dash,» while her no - good boyfriend (Callum Turner, utterly convincing) teaches him cockfighting, further relying on the kid to sell drugs to the shady characters who show up to watch the illegal activity.

Cockfighting involves two roosters wearing blades on their feet and fighting to the death while human spectators place bets on the outcome.

An HSUS undercover investigation exposed the pervasive problem of cockfighting rings across Texas, and the new law will close these loopholes and give law enforcement the tools they need to crack down on the entire cast of characters involved in cockfighting.

With a vote of 31 - 2, the West Virginia Senate has passed legislation to upgrade the state's law on dogfighting and cockfighting.

Lobby day participants are urging passage of S.B. 380, a bill that would make cockfighting a felony, make it a felony to provide a premises for animal fighting, possess animals for fighting or animal fighting paraphernalia, require forfeiture of animals for people convicted of animal fighting and prohibit wagering on animal fights.

We banned cockfighting, made dogfighting a felony offense, passed licensing and regulatory control of puppy mills, increased penalties for neglect and abuse, covered birds under cruelty statutes, regulated the keeping of large carnivores, preserved local regulations on farm animals, and most recently, we helped pass the Canine Cruelty Prevention Act which has closed down over 1,200 puppy mills.

May 14 — 2 goats, rescued from a dairy that planned on slaughtering them May 1, 2015 — 1 rooster, abandoned at shelter April 11, 2015 — 1 rooster April 7, 2015 — 2 stray female goats rescued by local animal control April 4, 2015: 1 rooster rescued from a cockfighting bust.

A major item on our agenda this year will be to require that abusers handle the «costs of care» for the animals rescued from dogfighting, cockfighting, and other cases of cruelty — rather than placing the financial burden on animal protection groups.

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.

Cockfighting & murder occur together worldwide FORT WORTH, Texas ---- Fort Worth Star - Telegram reporter Deanna Boyd mentioned almost as an afterthought the murderous history of Robert Eugene Coleman, 56, one of three alleged cockfighters arrested on February 28, 2016: «Tarrant County court records show Coleman had previously been sentenced to 20 years in prison in 1998 -LSB-...]

the woman bear huge, beautifully arranged, pyramids of food, fruits and flowers on their heads while the man give a blood sacrifice in the form of cockfighting.

On the biggest ceremony days you can encounter crowded cockfights.

-LSB-...] when I visited this place in San Nicolas, Cebu City's old quarter, el pueblo antiguo, that Rizal visited, there was a cockfight going on.

This is a sport which was once referred to by U.S. Senator John McCain as «human cockfighting»; while he later softened that stance it was only after some years and a concerted effort on the part of the sport to round off its harder edges.

To terminate a lease (a rental agreement for a year is a lease), there would have to be just cause for eviction (p. 65), such as failing to pay rent, violating terms of the agreement, cockfighting, and so on, and that does not include being a pain in the neck.