I think it's pretty barbaric regardless of whether it's legal, same as dog-fighting, but the hypocrisy is always interesting. I'm a meat-eater, and I'm sure most of the beef and chicken I eat have been kept in worse conditions than these roosters. Additionally, the only gambling I really enjoy is playing the dogs and the horses. Yeah, they aren't killed in the process, but I always feel there's something vaguely exploitative about it, especially at the dogtracks and the smaller horsetracks. Maybe exploitative isn't the word for it, but I'm always wary of mistreatment and disrespect.