Cockfighting is extremely popular in my country, the Philippines. In fact, it's a multi-billion peso industry, and if it were to be shut down, many ordinary citizens would be affected. It's said that cockfighting existed even before the Spanish conquest, which is why I believe it's deeply embedded in our culture and tradition, making it difficult to simply put an end to it.
Although many people say that cockfighting is cruel to animals, setting that issue aside and focusing on the event itself, I find it incredibly thrilling. The matches can be highly addictive—especially if you have a genuine passion for these birds.
Your thoughts?
For me its fight if its been done on right area like coliseums and the people could access it is on the right age like no minor is allowed to enter on the premises.
What I'm not fine is they market it and include it on online gambling then make it accessible to anyone. Since this is how the problem starts especially that lots of people can access it and they can control the volume of bettors entering on the platforms.
Yeah its cruel for other especially if they have tradition to protect the animals. But for countries in Asia which this one is their tradition I guess people just need to respect their customary. As long as they regulated it well and only those people in right age could able to gamble in those places.