BRIEFLY.Byline: The Register-Guard Bill to ban cockfighting cockfighting, sport of pitting gamecocks against one other. Though popular in ancient Greece, Persia, and Rome, cockfighting has been long opposed by clergy and humane groups. passes House committee SALEM - Raising birds for cockfighting would be banned in Oregon under a plan approved Thursday by a House committee. The move would bring the state in line with a new federal law that prohibits transporting the animals across state lines. It also would make cockfighting a felony felony (fĕl`ənē), any grave crime, in contrast to a misdemeanor, that is so declared in statute or was so considered in common law. , elevating the crime from its current misdemeanor status. Oregon banned cockfighting in the 1970s, but breeders can still raise the birds and sell them to New Mexico New Mexico, state in the SW United States. At its northwestern corner are the so-called Four Corners, where Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah meet at right angles; New Mexico is also bordered by Oklahoma (NE), Texas (E, S), and Mexico (S). and Louisiana, the two states that still permit the rooster rooster its crowing at dawn heralds each new day. [Western Folklore: Leach, 329] See : Dawn rooster symbol of maleness. [Folklore: Binder, 85] See : Virility fights. |
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