For true blooded cockers and gamefowl breeders, cockfighting is a sport and industry in the highest order. What we all try to profess is that cockfighting is a sport in which breeding excellence and recognition is the ultimate prize.
In spite of these, it is sad to know that some people and entities look at cockfighting as a good opportunity to make a killing and advance their personal financial interests.
They see cockfighting, not as the sport of honorable men, as we want it to be, but merely a commodity that they can sell or an event that they can make quick money of.
In their lust to bleed cold cash out of cockfighting, they actually sacrifices cockfighting itself.
One example is the introduction of cockfighting in the internet. Nowadays, cockfighting is being used in the same level as other casino games like baccarat, roulette or blackjack to the detriment of the sport.
Currently, there is already a website that offers cockers, especially those overseas, a forum to gamble and bet in cockfighting right at their houses or offices. Players are required to put in money via several payment systems like Western Union, Instadebit, Prepaid ATM or Moneybookers.
Clearly, the website sum up their objective with this: "Our goal is to provide our customers the best quality viewing of live cockfights and for the first time place bets against other viewers in REAL-TIME. A first time experience for anyone entering the site and the most exciting in Internet Gaming!!! With this, anyone can watch cockfighting on his desktop computer which is very good.
Unfortunately, in the same manner, one can gamble and lose money without living his home or office. We are promoting cockfighting as an alternative sport and pastime, so as to develop more cockers, not gamblers.
This venture are the kind of things that will eventually smear the face of cockfighting to ugliness and strengthen the contention of moralist groups that cockfighting is nothing more than gambling in which players look at roosters simply as playing cards in a poker game. Operators of this website make a killing by automatically charging a percentage every time a bettor wins in a particular match.
It is quite unfortunate that, while, such respected entities like the National Federation of Gamefowl Breeders strive to promote and propagate cockfighting and gamefowl breeding as a respectable livelihood, healthy competition and an exciting spectator sport, unscrupulous businessmen advertises cockfighting simply as a game of chance and feast on it like hungry vultures.
Last Monday, another website, Japan-based www.sabongworld.com owned by Kabu Game Media Corporation, did a test broadcast of live cockfighting from the Makati Coliseum. What is its ultimate goal? Of course, it is internet gambling using Philippine cockfighting as a tool to rake in millions, if not billions of dollars. The question that should be addressed is does internet gambling based on cockfighting helping cockfighting? If it is, I can't see how?
What is clear is that the only things these gambling websites, masquerading as promoters of cockfighting, do, is destroy the credibility of the sport by presenting Philippine cockfighting as plain game of chance and in the process project the Filipino cocker or the Pinoy sabungero as an irresponsible, gambling-hungry individual. They sadly put sabong in the same context as cybersex and treat roosters merely as a tool for lust and entertainment, in the same manner that cybersex-operators made used of young Filipina girls who's only fault in life are being poor.
What we need are people who breeds and raises gamefowls. Those people who find satisfaction, not in the money they win or the money they take away from the losers, but in the camaraderie and brotherhood that are unmatched in the field of cockfighting. The United Backyard Breeders Association immediately comes to mind. What we need are young cockers who will adopt cockfighting as an alternative diversion and pastime, instead of them trying other vices like drugs and alcohol. Internet gambling websites using cockfighting will never in any way contribute to the above-mentioned goals and because of that, they should be stopped and scrapped.
By encouraging more people to breed and fight gamebirds, there will be more actual cockfighting events like hackfights and derbies. The more roosters are bred and fought, the more people will be able to earn a respectable living like the breeders; the handlers; the gaffers; the kristos; the cockpit operators and their employees; the poultry supply stores; the feed millers; the gamefowl medicine and vitamin producers; the knife-makers; the cockfight magazine publishers; the cockfight television programs and the likes. Being a unique Filipino culture, cockfighting deserves the protection of the Philippine government and the Filipino against these greedy entrepreneurs who will not only besmirch the honor of sabong and the Pinoy sabungero, but also pull down Philippines as a nation. The various associations; the cockfighting-media; the cockpit owners; the Philippine government and the millions of Filipinos who loves cockfighting must act now before cockfighting is bled to its death.

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