AR-News: (US) Louisiana state legislature votes to ban hog-dog fights

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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - After watching grainy video images of dogs
clamping their jaws onto squealing hogs, Louisiana state legislatjure
members voted 75-25 Tuesday to outlaw "hog-dog" events popular in some
rural areas.

Democratic Representative Warren Triche showed fellow legislators video
news tape of hog-dog events in Clarke County, Ala., to try and persuade
them such events are "violent cruel, inhumane, barbaric and damn well
sadistic." Triche said the violent hog-dog events contribute to
Louisiana's poor national image and harm economic-development efforts but
Representative Troy Hebert, another Democrat, said Triche was attacking a
feature of rural life.

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