ANIMAL WATCH - This week, the “FIGHT Act” (Fighting Inhumane Gambling and High-Risk Trafficking) was introduced by Washington, D.C., lawmakers to provide federal legislation to crack down on the increasing issue of millions of animals—primarily Pit Bulls and fighting roosters— being trafficked for illegal dogfighting and cockfighting throughout the U.S., as blood-thirsty gamblers wager on which will survive. 

On April 20, the Washington, D.C.-based Animal Wellness Action (AWA),  50lc(4) organization, issued a media release that the bill was introduced in the House of Representatives by U.S. Reps. Don Bacon, R-Neb., and Andrea Salinas, D-Oregon, “Driven by concerns for the barbarism of animal fighting, other criminal behavior comingled with it, and disease threats to poultry posed by transporting fighting roosters.”