“The only way to stop the inherent cruelty of greyhound racing is a complete ban” - Read ICABS Campaign Director Aideen Yourell’s Letter to the Editor in the Sunday Times...
Barking at wrong people on racing
Letters, Sunday Times, 12 September 2021
James Norton wrongly castigates the Department of Education and Folens publishers for encouraging students to write to the minister for agriculture to have greyhound racing banned ("Greyhound industry's critics are barking up the wrong tree", Letters, last week). The textbook does not encourage students to write calling for a ban, but merely suggests asking for improvements in the welfare of greyhounds.
However, the only way to stop the inherent cruelty of greyhound racing is a complete ban. This is an industry that cannot be rehabilitated. Overbreeding will continue, resulting in many greyhounds being put down, abandoned or exported to countries with low welfare standards.
James Norton warns of the "insidious and gradual creep of animal rights activism in Ireland". Indeed, animal rights activism is steadily on the march, in a bid to stamp out all forms of animal abuse.
Aideen Yourell
Irish Council Against Blood Sports
ACTION ALERT
Thank Folens publishers for highlighting greyhound racing cruelty and killing in its "Make a Difference" book - Email: info@folens.ie Encourage the company to feature more animal cruelty issues in future editions so that pupils can be made more aware of the plight of Irish wildlife.
SEE ALSO: School book highlights suffering and death in greyhound racing
https://www.facebook.com/banbloodsports/videos/2907541506170896/
Urge the leaders of Fianna Fail, Fine Gael, the Green Party, Sinn Fein and Labour to back a ban on cruel greyhound racing
Micheál Martin TD
Leader, Fianna Fail
Email: taoiseach@taoiseach.gov.ie; micheal.martin@oireachtas.ie; info@fiannafail.ie
Phone: 021-432 0088
Leinster House: 01–618 4350
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/michealmartintd/
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/@MichealMartinTD
Leo Varadkar TD
Leader, Fine Gael
Telephone: 01-619 4020
Email: leo.varadkar@oireachtas.ie; finegael@finegael.ie
Tweet to: http://www.twitter.com/@LeoVaradkar
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LeoVaradkar
Eamon Ryan TD
Leader, Green Party
Tel: 01 618 3894
Email: eamon.ryan@oireachtas.ie
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EamonRyanGP/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/EamonRyan
Mary Lou McDonald TD
Leader, Sinn Fein
Tel: (01) 727 7102
Email: marylou.mcdonald@oireachtas.ie
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MaryLouMcDonald
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/MaryLouMcDonaldTD
Alan Kelly TD
Leader, Labour Party
Tel: 067 34190
Email: alan.kelly@oir.ie
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alankellytd/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/alankellylabour
Sign and share the petitions
Tell Gain Pet Nutrition to Stop Sponsoring Greyhound Racing
https://www.change.org/p/jimtracy-glanbia-ie-tell-gain-pet-nutrition-to-stop-sponsoring-greyhound-racing
Ireland must ban greyhound racing
https://www.thepetitionsite.com/en-gb/184/794/470/?TAP=1732
“Stop Greyhound Racing”
https://www.change.org/p/the-department-of-agriculture-stop-greyhound-racing
Watch RTE’s award-winning “Greyhounds Running For Their Lives” documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYTb2qBjlMM