{"id":466,"date":"2008-05-22T00:01:45","date_gmt":"2008-05-22T07:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/05\/fighting-over-cocks-fighting\/"},"modified":"2008-05-21T22:11:56","modified_gmt":"2008-05-22T05:11:56","slug":"fighting-over-cocks-fighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/05\/22\/fighting-over-cocks-fighting\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting Over Cocks Fighting"},"content":{"rendered":"

from the AP via SiliconValley.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Magazine in cockfight dispute agrees to stay off Amazon<\/h1>\n

Associated Press<\/p>\n

Article Launched:\u00a005\/21\/2008 07:29:51 AM PDT<\/p>\n

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SEATTLE – A magazine that the Humane Society of the United States says promotes cockfighting has agreed to ask\u00a0Amazon.com<\/a>\u00a0to stop selling its publication online.<\/p>\n

\"Cocks\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the lawsuit, the Humane Society accused the online retailer of violating federal animal cruelty laws by selling The Gamecock and The Feathered Warrior, which the group described as cockfighting magazines.<\/p>\n

Marburger Publishing Co., which publishes The Gamecock, agreed to settle with the Humane Society because it was a way to remove itself from the case, but the publication does not promote cockfighting or violate a federal ban on the bloody sport, said attorney Ali Beydoun of the law firm Carr Maloney.<\/p>\n

\"In-flightA recent federal law added felony-level penalties for activities promoting or encouraging animal fighting. The Animal Fighting Prohibition Act of 2007 also made it a felony to knowingly sponsor or exhibit an animal fight, or to buy, sell or transport knives, gaffs and other weapons used in cockfighting.<\/p>\n

Cockfighting is illegal in every state except Louisiana, where a legislative ban goes into effect in August.<\/p>\n

Lovvorn called The Gamecock “the oldest and best-known cockfighting magazine in the United States.”<\/p>\n

Beydoun described the magazine as appealing to “chicken aficionados,” focusing on animal care and stories about people who raise chickens and game birds.<\/p>\n

\"from“It’s a hard magazine to come by. It’s not as available as People magazine or Vanity Fair,” he said.<\/p>\n

About the only places a chicken lover could buy the publication are at an animal feed store or via Amazon, where the publication was offered by a magazine distributor, not the publisher, said Barry A. Fisher, of the Los Angeles law firm Fleishman & Fisher, which also represents Marburger Publishing.<\/p>\n

Fisher said the lawsuit isn’t really about The Gamecock or The Feathered Warrior.<\/p>\n

“Their real target is Amazon,” he said.<\/p>\n

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