End Cockfighting

We are working to end cockfighting — one of the biggest underground animal-use industries in the U.S., with fighting birds raised on an agricultural scale.

Oklahomans: Urgent action needed!

Oklahoman lawmakers are getting reday to gut the state's voter-approved anti-cockfighting law and to decriminalize cockfighting in many of the places where it occurs. Please help us stop them!

The Issue

Cockfighting is one of the biggest underground animal-use industries in the United States, with fighting birds raised on an agricultural scale. There are millions of fighting birds in the U.S., thousands of cockfighting “farms,” and perhaps hundreds of pits and arenas, with U.S.-based cockfighters acting as the breeding ground for the global industry.

In cockfights, handlers attach sharp knives or curved icepicks (called “gaffs”) to roosters’ legs, weapons intended to enhance the bloodletting and maim or kill the birds conscripted into the pit to fight. Animal fighting is one of the most gruesome forms of animal exploitation, with the animals hacked up for the mere pleasure and wagering by handlers and spectators. It is a global enterprise, conducted from Mexico to Manilla.

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Actions to Take

Tell your Representatives

to end animal fighting by cosponsoring the Animal Fighting Amendments of 2022

Sign Our Petition

to help us end animal fighting world-wide

Donate

to help us end cockfighting once and for all!

CITIZEN HOTLINE

Send any tips, footage or other intelligence about illegal animal fighting to our anonymous email

Our Investigative Reports

Past Reports

Hawaii: The Hub for Pacific Rim Cockfighting Trade

Investigation of Guam shipping records revealed most shippers are from Hawaii

Commonwealth Cruelty:

Investigation into Kentucky's global trafficking of fighting animals

The North Carolina Cockfighting Industry

Investigation of North Carolina's involvement in the cockfighting industry

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