Why cockfighting still persists.

This article explains why cockfighting, illegal in all 50 states, still exists. The author writes about her childhood experience with cockfighting and tells the reader where they can go to get information and supplies to cockfight. Although I'm not interested in cockfighting the article was a little informational. I did not know that cockfighting is a felony in 39 states. I also did not know that they tied knives to the roosters to stab/slice the other rooster. I would say this article opened my eyes to how cruel cockfighting truly is. The title was what caught my attention and i believed it would be an interesting topic to read about, however, it was not. It was boring and more laid back than professional. The author explains magazines and lineage can be to blame for cockfighting that goes on today. The author interviews a man named Bo who was convicted of cockfighting, a  man she knew when she was younger and he outright denies all allegations his roosters were for fighting. As you read the story, it is easy to form an opinion that Bo is lying. The article ends with this quote from him saying, “I told them I was going to a cockfight as soon as I could. Not here in the U.S., but maybe in the Philippines or in Mexico or the D.R. My church has got missions all over the world. I’ll go on a trip and I’ll see a fight. What can they do to me then? Nothing.”  Your telling me he wasn't cockfighting? The author comes right out and says she saw cockfights at his house, by his father, when she was a child. In my opinion, the author writing this and Bo allowing her to interview him and print this makes them both look foolish. This was one of the worst articles I have ever read, definitely the worst so far for this class.