09-02-2020, 08:29 PM
The rooster issue tends to fall through the cracks when boisterous shouting at council meetings and improbable explanations are offered for the existence of rooster farms on Big Island. Breeding stock. They're pretty. They're for export only to out of state rooster emporiums. Finally someone did their homework, tracked shipments and named names:
A Washington, D.C., animal rights group named 12 Big Island residents and businesses as suspected distributors of fighting roosters to cockfighting operations in Guam... the results of a months-long investigation into Hawaii’s involvement in the international trade of fighting roosters, identifying 22 people or organizations throughout the state thought to have exported such birds to Guam in the past three years.
... the organization combed shipping records on Guam from between 2016 and 2019 and identified nearly 9,000 birds suspected of being bred as fighting roosters. About 1,000 of those birds, he said, were sent from Hawaii.
“(The exporters) sometimes claim they’re selling breeding stock,” Irby said. “But Guam has no commercial poultry industry, and almost all of these birds are roosters.”
“Any chicken farmer would tell you that’s not how you breed chickens...”
Irby pointed out that the 22 suspected shippers in the state are only representative of those who sent birds to Guam between 2016 and 2019, and does not show how many others are sending birds to the Philippines, Vietnam or other countries.
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/202...exporters/
A Washington, D.C., animal rights group named 12 Big Island residents and businesses as suspected distributors of fighting roosters to cockfighting operations in Guam... the results of a months-long investigation into Hawaii’s involvement in the international trade of fighting roosters, identifying 22 people or organizations throughout the state thought to have exported such birds to Guam in the past three years.
... the organization combed shipping records on Guam from between 2016 and 2019 and identified nearly 9,000 birds suspected of being bred as fighting roosters. About 1,000 of those birds, he said, were sent from Hawaii.
“(The exporters) sometimes claim they’re selling breeding stock,” Irby said. “But Guam has no commercial poultry industry, and almost all of these birds are roosters.”
“Any chicken farmer would tell you that’s not how you breed chickens...”
Irby pointed out that the 22 suspected shippers in the state are only representative of those who sent birds to Guam between 2016 and 2019, and does not show how many others are sending birds to the Philippines, Vietnam or other countries.
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/202...exporters/