Of all the mistreatment of animals in our country, it is undoubtedly particularly unique because of the organization it involves, the social acceptance it enjoys in certain places, and the frequency with which it occurs.
Cockfights are organized around money. The maximum attention that lies behind them is not the show of seeing how the two animals are corroded and bloodiedly injuring themselves, but the mere bets that keep this mistreatment of the book alive. In fact, it is estimated that they can move around one hundred thousand euros in each cockfight. In some it may be less, but in many it is much more.
Evidence of the economic strength revolving around them is the price of the roosters joining them. The value of each can easily exceed ten or twenty thousand euros. American, Malay, German or English roosters are usually preferred for their purity and ferocity. These are the most expensive.
In such cases, abuse is not limited to fighting, it continues from the beginning to the end of the whole process. It starts with the training of the roosters, continues with the fight, and even reaches the wounds inflicted by the rooster owners with loctite or other homemade glues, the treatments applied by the roosters. In a world where the lives of animals are not worth anything, anything happens. That is why animals destroy themselves with a lively pecking, either with their sharp spurs or other metal spurs that hold themselves like blades, until they are wounded, blinded, or killed in the battle circle.
I’ve seen many fighting roosters, infiltrated organizations that were fighting, and cooperated with the police in their liquidation, which among other things helped me get death threats for months. I know what I’m talking about so what I don’t understand is how these animals are allowed to breed, sell and keep. I just don’t see how an association like a fighting rooster can exist legally. I don’t understand and I don’t think I will.