Animal-rights measures on fall ballot in three states

Saturday, October 19, 2002

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Animal-rights activism is colliding head-on with rural tradition in Oklahoma, where voters will decide Nov. 5 whether to ban cockfighting in one of the last three states to allow the bloody spectacle.

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