Animals: S. P. C. A. v. Cocks

Place two game cocks on opposite sides of a knothole in a fence and place a bowl of food beside each. The birds will then starve to death, watching each other.

Unique among living creatures in their sinister and unending hatred, it would be cruel to deprive gamecocks of fighting, a thing they most love to do. No such abuse exists. In the U. S. there are not less than 75 million dollars worth of gamecocks and although for many years the sport has been illegal, cockfights are carried on in a secrecy that...

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