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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A Fresno County ordinance capping the fig of roosters idiosyncratic tin ain per spot is causing a disturbance among the section Hmong community.
The ordinance volition beryllium work astatine the adjacent Board of Supervisors gathering connected Oct. 7 and, if passed, volition beryllium adopted into instrumentality wrong 30 days aft that. However, the Hmong assemblage says this caller ordinance would endanger their livelihoods.
“We consciousness similar we're being attacked. We consciousness similar we're being silenced. We consciousness similar we're being discriminated against,” a Hmong assemblage subordinate said.
“We consciousness similar this is directed to the community. We consciousness that this targets our religion,” different Hmong assemblage subordinate said.
Fresno's Board of Supervisors is 1 measurement distant from passing the ‘keeping of roosters’ ordinance - limiting 5 roosters per spot without a permit. But folks astatine the Fresno Center are against it due to the fact that they said it goes against their culture.
“Now you're restricting them connected that practice. You know, erstwhile we person a decease successful a family, erstwhile we person a ceremonial ritual, erstwhile we person a wedding, erstwhile we person a newborn baby, we usage a rooster,” The Fresno Center President Pao Yang said.
Supervisor Luis Chavez supports the Hmong community's concerns.
“I did not sponsor this item; my colleagues sponsor this item, and it came arsenic a effect of aggregate complaints, challenges with cockfighting rings, with amerciable gambling, with things of that sort,” Supervisor Luis Chavez said.
And the Fresno Center’s president saw a request to meet.
“Believe me, the assemblage is each for the [end of] amerciable cockfighting and each that and the sound and each that. But what they're saying is, 'Hey, woody with it. Don't bash a broad ordinance implicit radical that are innocent,'” Yang said.
He added that if anything, the ordinance needs to beryllium further evaluated. “That's what we're calling for, a hold successful this. And let's rewrite this ordinance unneurotic truthful that it makes consciousness for everybody,” Yang said.
