statement<\/a> after Korea Air’s announcement.<\/p>\nTexas as cockfighting \u2018hub\u2019<\/p>\n
Local perspective<\/p>\n
The report came from AWA in October 2025, saying a stretch of U.S. land from Tulsa, Oklahoma, to Dallas, and stretching as far east as the Tyler-Longview area, is known as the “Texoma Cockfighting Corridor.” According to the nonprofit, Texas, where cockfighting is illegal, serves as a massive supplier of the birds to areas where the violent sport is popular and profitable, including the Philippines.<\/p>\n
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Animal Wellness Action \u2022 THE TEXOMA COCKFIGHTING CORRIDOR<\/p>\n
One large breeder of the birds near Dallas, North Texas Livestock Shipping Company, is noted in the report as “specializ[ing] in trafficking fighting birds to the Philippines.” They and other breeders are reportedly known to use commercial airlines to send roosters to Asia explicitly for cockfighting.<\/p>\n
According to the nonprofit, these breeders rear the birds for the sole purpose of fighting. Those birds are then allegedly sold for as much as $2,000 each. Filipino authorities reported more than $12 billion in wagering on cockfighting in 2022, the report says, and large events like the “World Slasher Cup” can see nightly sums as high as $600,000 change hands over the sport.<\/p>\n
What they’re saying<\/p>\n
“Cockfighting enthusiasts also breed and train and then export tens of thousands of roosters to Guam, Mexico, the Philippines, and other nations, despite federal laws banning such shipments,” the report says.<\/p>\n
Texas cockfighting arrests<\/p>\n
Dig deeper<\/p>\n
While cockfighting is illegal in all 50 U.S. states, arrests for the illicit sport are not uncommon within and around the Texoma Cockfighting Corridor. In just the past year, FOX Local station in Texas have produced at least a half-dozen news stories on large-scale cockfighting rings being broken up in the state, often leading to numerous arrests and dozens of rescued animals.<\/p>\n
Read more:<\/p>\n
The Source<\/p>\n
Information in this article comes from Korean Air, Animal Wellness Action and previous FOX Local coverage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief Korean Air has banned transporting roosters from the U.S. to the Philippines. The move follows reports…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[101228,43810,101226,82012,26438,101227,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-272560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-animal-wellness-action","tag-cockfighting","tag-korea-air","tag-korean-air","tag-philippines","tag-roosters","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}