AR-News: (US-la) Law enforcement targets La.'s cockfighting industry

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SUNSET, La. — 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.

full story:
http://www.clarionledger.com/news/0402/09/b06.html

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