Animal Wellness Action denounces bill to legalize cockfighting in US territories
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Animal Wellness Action strongly criticized the effort by Delegate James Moylan, R-Guam, to repeal a 2018 provision of the National Animal Fighting Law applying to the U.S. territories.
Congress overwhelmingly strengthened the federal law against animal fighting in December 2018, extending all prohibitions in the federal law to apply to all U.S. territories. The Farm bill amendment, approved nearly without any dissent in the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate, had a one-year phase-in and took full effect in December 2019. It had already been illegal for years to ship fighting birds to Guam, to possess animals for fighting, or to be a spectator at an animal fighting venture.
