Sentences with phrase «though cockfighting»

If enacted, cockfighters will claim their fighting rooster breeding operations are farms and demand constitutional protection even though cockfighting is a crime.

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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.

Because the language in SQ777 would allow puppy mill and cockfighting breeders to define themselves as «farmers,» there is little state and local governments could do to enact safeguards against such practices, even though Oklahomans have been clear they don't want such operations in our state.