AR-News: (LA) Federal enforcement could stop flow of cockfighting cash in Cajun countr

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

By CAIN BURDEAU 
The Associated Press 
2/7/2004, 4:06 p.m. CT 

SUNSET, La. (AP) — At this time of the year, the cockers fly in from 
far-flung places — Germany, the Philippines, New York — and spend like crazy in the 
cockfighting pits that dot the fallow landscape of a balmy Cajun winter.
But Cajun towns like this one, a bygone sweet potato hub, face hardship as 
the federal government begins enforcing a ban on the movement of fighting 
roosters across state lines and out of the country. 
Thousands of gamecocks are shipped in and out of Louisiana every year and 
cockfighters contend that Louisiana stands to lose $206 million in business as 
out-of-state cockfighters will not be allowed to bring their birds here to fight.
"They always have money, plenty of cash, and they like seafood," said Jackie 
Mills, an owner of the family run roadside Mills Seafood & Crawfish Cabin. The 
seafood outlet and country store is two miles down the road from the Sunset 
Recreational Club, a favorite locale for cockfighters, also known as cockers.


full story:

http://www.nola.com/newsflash/louisiana/index.ssf?/base/news-7/107619235038872
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