you don’t raise roosters to eat. You raise roosters to sell as fighting cocks. It’s in the genes like horses. Good genes mean big $$
American cocks are prized in the Philippines. Exports and jobs you know
In the South, roosters raised like that end up in “the pit”. The strong one leaves to fight another day.
Probably 75% or more of those attending these fights are hispanic (and speak little or no English), in Ga anyway.