July/August 2003: Suspected cockfighters were paid $11.4 million SACRAMENTO––Cockfighters who spread Exotic Newcastle Disease throughout Southern California and into Arizona between November 2002 and May 2003 by illegally transporting gamecocks between fighting pits appear to have created a financial windfall for themselves, according to documents obtained by Associated Press under the federal Freedom of Information […]
California state senators grovel before cockfighters’ “cultural” defense”
California Association for the Preservation of Gamefowl argues that 90% of game fowl breeders are Latino. So are 89% of 90 recent cockfighting-related murder victims. SACRAMENTO, California––California state assembly member Chris Rogers, a Democrat from Ukiah, might have imagined his anti-cockfighting bill, AB 928, would easily clear the state senate appropriations committee on August 3, […]
Pigs win U.S. Senate bean-shooter “Showdown at the Not OK Coral”
The Save Our Bacon Act, or SOB Act, fails to advance WASHINGTON D.C.––The much anticipated August 6, 2026 “Showdown at the Not Okay Corral” might as well have been fought with bean shooters––SNAP bean shooters––for all that the outcome meant toward passing a 2026 Farm Bill. The 2026 Farm Bill failed by an 11-10 vote […]
Showdown day at the Not Okay Corral comes to Congress
The “Save Our Bacon Act” a.k.a. the “SOB Act,” and the FIGHT Act head a long list of Farm Bill 2026 showdown items WASHINGTON D.C.––Thursday, August 6, 2026 is mark-up and amendment day, for reconciliation of the Senate and House of Representatives versions 2026 Farm Bill. That makes August 6, 2026 the showdown day at […]
Rotten eggs: Kroger stores & Korean Air flout animal welfare pledges
Will Kroger treat newly acquired Giant Eagle like egg suppliers’ laying hens? CINCINNATI, Ohio––Kroger (rhymes with ogre), the 143-year-old, 2,800-store second largest grocery store chain in the U.S., with 8.5% market share, trailing only Walmart, stole food and business media headlines nationwide on July 1, 2026 by announcing a $1.65 billion deal to acquire the […]
Feds bust Louisiana cop for allegedly retaliating against cockfighting witness
Cop apparently tried to forge documents to get witness deported as alleged illegal alien GULFPORT, Mississippi––Confirmation of probable collusion between cockfighters and elements of law enforcement surfaced in Gulfport, Mississippi on June 1, 2026, days after major cockfighting busts in Mississippi, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. U.S. Federal Court magistrate judge Bradley Rath denied bond for Hammond, […]
Cockfighter-turned-cop-killer informed on himself––on TikTok!
Busted as Edgar Lara, cockfighter & murder suspect is known on TikTok as Edgar Arellano Holguin––& that isn’t all! CAMERON, Oklahoma––What better cover for a cockfighter-turned-cop-killer claiming association with a major Mexican drug-dealing cartel than a dual identity? What better cover for a cockfighting derby than to call it a fundraiser for a murdered cop’s […]
Korean Air responds to cockfighting complaints; rural sheriffs don’t
Korean Air suspends rooster transport to the Philippines SEOUL, South Korea; FANNIN COUNTY, Georgia; DAYTON, Tennessee––Why is Korean Air more responsive to complaints about cockfighters, at considerable monetary cost to itself, than rural Southern sheriffs who are paid in part to stop cockfights? “Korean Air has suspended rooster shipments on flights from the United States […]
Cocks of the walk: cockfighters avoid jail in Michigan & Oklahoma
Cockfighters convicted but sentenced to probation plus minimal fines ALLEGAN, Michigan; NEWALLA, Oklahoma; ST. LANDRY PARISH, Louisiana––Catching cockfighters in the act on drone video is one thing, persuading country sheriffs to bust them is another, and after all that, convincing county judges to throw so much as a comic book at them is another problem […]
Sheriff ignores cockfight, rails against “liberal green energy agendas”
Crowing roosters are solar-powered BAILEYTON, Alabama––Showing Animals Respect & Kindness drone video on the morning of April 18, 2026 caught a steady stream of cockfighters carrying dead and dying roosters out of a metal-clad shed at 1951 County Road 1570, Baileyton, in northeastern Cullman County, Alabama. One man threw a wounded rooster into the back […]