Am surprised didnt know the game can be legal in a country. Would like to know about your country and how long the game has been in existence. Ive always taught that it would be impossible for a country to make cockfight legal, am sure thats because I barely know little about the game and I am from a country where it is not been practiced.
In the Philippines, cockfighting has been around before the discovery of Magellan (Portuguese explorer) of the island. Cockfighting at the moment is a very big business in the Philippines and if stop many people will go jobless.Cock fighting to me should never be a legal game because its just like violating the right of the animals. I am just of that opinion because I cannot imagine how animals are been used to gamble. Is that the extent to which gamblers are in need of money or you people still do that for fun?
If we are talking of animal rights here, then circus is way more brutal than cockfighting. It is nature for roosters to fight but it is not nature for bears to entertain people.