SHARK reached out to the authorities locally and statewide in KY about the upcoming fundraiser event, and to their great credit, they took immediate action; within a day the event was cancelled!
Cockfighters in KY were planning a big fundraiser this weekend to support
their abuse of animals, but SHARK was on the job and got it shut down!
This weekend, January 22-23rd, a group of cockfighters working under the
name of the “Rural Animal Owners Alliance" (RAOA), planned to have a “Winter
Bash,” to raise money for their efforts to overturn anti-cockfighting laws
and other laws meant to protect animals from cruelty and abuse.
When SHARK found out that they were going to have hundreds of people from a
number of different states pour into a small town in KY, we knew that this
would violate rules meant to stop the spread of COVID-19. We reached out to
the authorities locally and statewide in KY, and to their great credit, they
took immediate action; within a day the event was cancelled!
We told the authorities that there was a massive two-day event planned
for this coming weekend in Greenup, KY. We provided evidence that one of the
coordinators of the event expected at least 500 people to come in from a
number of states, including from Florida, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, North
Carolina, Tennessee and more. We made sure they knew that this was an
incredibly risky event that is almost guaranteed to be a super-spreader
event, and could cause great damage to Greenup County.
We know that cockfighters don’t care about the harm they cause animals, but
that they planned this event when so many people are dying shows they care
little about human suffering as well.
RAOA is an off-shoot of the pro-cockfighting organization called the KY
Game Breeders Association. In their own words, "The new Rural Animal Owners
Alliance LLC will be able to hire lawyers, lobbyists ect [sic] to help us in
this war with the Animal Rights Activists.”
Everything we are trying to do is to save lives and to stop suffering. By
going to “war,” against us, these people are openly stating that they want
to continue to abuse and kill animals. That’s immoral and unethical.
Shutting this event down not only saved human lives, but it helped expose
how cockfighters are trying to hide behind made-up names and others to
promote and protect their disgusting acts.
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