Barry's Tea has ignored calls for it to stop supporting the cruel greyhound industry and is set to sponsor more racing this summer.
According to the Irish Greyhound Board website, one of the events at Cork's Curraheen Park track this June will be the "Barrys Tea Open 750" https://www.igb.ie/YourKennel/upcoming-events/features--classics/
Barry's Tea is one of the greyhound industry's biggest supporters, having sponsored races at Curraheen Park for years. The 2018 Barry’s Tea Open 750 offered over €10,000 in prize money, while in 2017, there was over €9,000 on offer. At Curraheen Park, Barry's Tea director, Tony Barry, was photographed presenting a trophy to the owner of a winning greyhound.
In continuing to sponsor greyhound racing, Barry's Tea is disregarding the animal cruelty inherent in the greyhound industry, including injuries and deaths at tracks and the dumping and killing of greyhounds no longer considered quick enough to win.
In the past four years alone, at least 1,559 greyhounds have suffered injuries at tracks around Ireland, and 506 greyhounds have been killed by track vets. This does not include the greyhounds injured at tracks and later killed elsewhere.
Meanwhile, at least 2,649 greyhounds have been destroyed in Irish pounds in the past eight years. In addition, thousands of greyhounds go missing each year, presumed killed when found to be too slow. One Irish trainer remarked online: "I've seen dogs being shot. It has to be done as there's too many of them to rehome." A former chairman of the Irish Greyhound Board meanwhile admitted on Cork's 96 FM that he believes it is "absolutely" okay for thousands of dogs to be killed and that racing couldn't exist without the destruction of dogs.
Some of the industry's horrors have been highlighted on RTE's Prime Time - Limerick Animal Welfare's Marion Fitzgibbon told viewers: "We believe there are probably 10,000 greyhounds put to sleep every year. They can be killed in all sorts of fashions. We've had so many instances of finding them shot, ears cut off, drowned." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIUkAGa708s
Thumbs down to Barry's Tea for disregarding the suffering and killing in greyhound racing and ignoring appeals to end its sponsorship.
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Urge Barry's Tea to stop sponsoring greyhound racing.
Barry's Tea,
Kinsale Road, Cork, Ireland
Tel: +353 21 491 5000
Email: info@barrystea.ie
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Irish Government: Stop Giving Millions of Euro to Cruel Greyhound Industry
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BEST CAR PARKS
TEXACLOTH
THURLES FRESH MILK
FLAHERTY MARKETS GALWAY
HEALTHCARE & TRANSPORT SERVICES
BOYLESPORTS
LADBROKES
CASEY'S CARAVAN & CAMPING WATERFORD
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