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I’m proud of you fellas.

You kept your head
on a swivel.

That’s what you gotta do when
you’re in a vicious cockfight.

Can you believe Mantooth and
the Evening News Team?

If they didn’t break any laws and it’s legal (and common) down there, I see absolutely nothing wrong with it.

Game cocks live longer then the ideal chicken. They also have history on each bird like a family tree which most families don’t have or even know of. They see a VET for to test for medical problems. They live in a controled area just like you do, but their master waters and feeds them daily and the eat better then the ideal chicken you eat. Nobody says anything about the boxing around the world, look at ALI. Not to much talk about the cats and dogs eaten around the world and even in our USA. More people are hurt or even killed at a soccer game the at any Cock fight. Look at bull ridding. How would like some one to tie your nuts and make you go. Or even cut the off to make you bigger so people can eat. We use to have lots of farmers with chickens. And yes we cut the out to. A good Rooster lives with approx 10 hens (he becomes a breeder) or stud. Around here the studs just pass on HIV. Leave the old sport alone it polices it self. Thanks for your tiime.

The difference between Vick and Pedro is that Pedro did not break the law! Are you trying to be like Bush now, going into other countries and forcing your customs or morality on them? Come on, let’s use some common sense now can’t we?

Didn’t break the law?!? What an incredibly stupid argument, which unfortunately has routinely been used by people to commit acts of cruelty and atrocity, thought out history. Amazing people haven’t evolved past there on selfishness to simply see this “sport” for what it is, cruel. There is no excuse for this sick behavior.

Are you trying to be like Bush now, going into other countries and forcing your customs or morality on them? Come on, let’s use some common sense now can’t we?

WTF are you talking about? Where is the US forcing ‘it’s morality’ on anyone? Oh you mean destroying totalitarian gulags? That’s not morality and either is anumal fighting.

Who made it our job to say what is right or wrong? I’m glad you feel you can cast stones because you’ve done nothing wrong in your life. Good for you. I should probably bow down to you then, because you are clearly better than all of us.

Be careful when trying to deal with absolute morality. There are plenty of things legal and accepted here that would get you sent to jail in other countries, or worse.

To All:

1. We opposers of this brutal, so-called sport never said it was illegal in the Dominican Republic. Therefore, that’s not the issue and not part of the debate.

2. Martinez and Marichal are hardly role models to the youth of the world in their involvement in this cruelty to animals.

3. Doctors say of youth who engage in such cruelty to animals: There’s something psychologically wrong with them and such youth often become some of the most deviant, sadistic criminals and murderers in later life. Logically, aspects of said diagnosis would apply to adults who do the same thing.

4. I posit something is aberrant in grown men, millionaires, looked upon as heroes and role models, but get their kicks and enjoy seeing animals fight to the death and in the process maim each other.

5. “If,” you factor in religion and “if” Martinez and Marichal are religious and or church goers (and their supporters), one must ask them and their supporters how they justify this barbaric, sadistic, cruel treatment of one of God’s creatures?

Lenny

this is in response for Richie Rich, what about you guys that go out every weekend kill deers and shoot down birds just for the hell of it. I quess thats not cruelty

Everyone needs to send this email below to :

fanfeedback@mets.mlb.com

After learning of and viewing the recent cockfighting that Pedro Martinez participated in, I am calling for an immediate suspension of Pedro Martinez. His suspension should mirror that of Michael Vick due to his acts being just as despicable. Professional athletes are role models for children all over the world and paid and rewarded for their work. They should also be responsible for their actions of the field. By ignoring this, you would indeed aid in the harming of countless animals all over the world.

I appreciate your assistance in this matter! Pedro needs to be suspended!

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Hey Richie Rich, If you have ever ate 1 piece of chicken in your life then shut-up about it alright and quit worrying about it. People need to start focusing on REAL problems. Abortion,drug-abuse and such happens everyday to me that is more important,not pedro turning loose a rooster that had a cousin that was eaten for food–hell at least he had a fighting chance. Until you see how and What’s behind gamefowl and know the facts then quit prematuraly judging.

How sad when people like Herman A GUSA above, justifies extreme pain and suffering of one animal with worse suffering to make it ALL OK.
Hey, if you get a boo-boo on your finger you know it hurts.
Animals hurt, animals feel pain, so get real and admit some of you are sadists.
What else could it be?

Cows and chicken are not animals, McDonald and KFC “create” their own food from just vegetables…

To everyone who thinks that cock fighting is torturous and is feeling Righteous. Look at how Tyson Farms or Purdue treats its chickens. They cut of their beaks to make them more docile. Instead of being able to free range, they are forced to stay in pens by the hundreds with no room to move. Their days are cut from 24 hours to 20 hours (10 hours day, 10 hours night) so that they mature faster. They live miserable a exsistence. Write letters to the Mets though. Then write them to the grocery stores who carry the Purdue or Tyson Chicken’s you eat for dinner. And the farms that they live on.

People have different cultures, and who hell do you think you are to impose your biblical “I’m right you’re wrong” attitude. Who are you to say these people are less evolved. Speaking as an American, this is why people in other countries hate us. Because ignorant ass people judging other cultures based on their lives.

Hey Byron … Did you just incriminate yourself?

Hey Richie … send that guy’s IP Address to the Feds.

im glad these professionals are continuing in the heritage in their culture the art of cockfighting has been going on hundreds of years the unites states forefathers were cockfighters our nation is becoming soft to conservative let people do as they willl live their culture

The rooster fights are not illegal in South America, Venezuela, Dominican Colombia are part of our culture and we demand that we respect our way of life and believe that Pedro Martinez and Juan Marichal does not have to make any apology to anyone in the USA because they do not violated any law ocupense of pollution you produce that destroying our planet and the sale of drugs in their pharmacies this destroying their society. RESPETEN …

Jason,
First, don’t leave a comment on a thread that is over three months old. Second, History doesn’t make it right.

On the other hand, thank you for serving.

I dont see a problem with cock fighting. Its just a part of history, all these people that say they are against cock fighting need to see what these animals do in the wild. Certain Breeds of these birds were just made to fight.
Also i think the Humane Society and organizations like PETA are ruining america. They made cock fighting illegal in many states, How long before hunting is illegal, then it will eventually get to the point where it will be illegal to have a animal in a cage.
i think there are alot bigger problems to deal with besides worrying about a bunch of birds fighting. Why doesnt the gov. stop wasting its time chasing cockers, and try to solve some murders, or try to find a way to stop the war. People are dyeing overseas to protect are freedoms, but organizations such as PETA are trying to take them away.
C’mon, the people in those organizations would watch a person die rather than an animal, and if you ask me i think they may have alot of free time on their hippie hands if they have nothing better to do than bitch about birds fighting. Alot of cockfights are just as humane as slaughtering companies are. If we continue to let organizations like PETA run america it will be illegal to consume meat, and all of america will be vegan.
FUCK PETA, IM GOING TO MEXICO

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Eric -

So if something is legal or part of a country’s heritage, it’s okay?
So foreign countries in which slavery is legal and has been for centuries, makes slavery okay right?

It doesn’t work that way.