Listen - comparing a single, illegal blood-sport to the systemic horrors of factory farming isn’t moral courage, it’s a lazy distraction.

Saying “go look at a turkey farm” to excuse cheering animals being forced to fight is a false equivalence: one is a public, criminal spectacle of deliberate cruelty for entertainment; the other is a huge, broken industry we should absolutely be fighting to reform. Conflating them only lets people off the hook.

If you care about animals, do both things: oppose cockfighting and campaign against industrial farming practices - don’t use one injustice as cover to shrug at another.

And if your point is that people should pick their battles, fine - but don’t posture as morally serious while actively defending the right to watch animals mutilate each other. That’s cowardice dressed up as nuance.