The latest cries from hardline anti-racing (and wagering) campaigners are just that: cries ( Letters , July 13). Their arguments and the arguments in this paper for a greyhound racing ban as usual amount to a blend of rhetorical moralising, a willingness to instruct strangers on how to live, an ignorance of culture and history, and an intolerance for anything other than (their own) moral purity. They are witch-burners.
Greyhound racing has its problems. Those are well known, publicised and understood. But so does every industry, community, profession and so forth.
Problems don’t mean cancellation. Problems mean a search for and implementation of solutions. That’s what adults do in the face of adversity.
Greyhound racing should and will be judged by its response to its problems. The fact is that the industry has improved massively over the past years. Let it continue to improve.
I am a longtime owner of retired greyhounds. They are superb beings, who deserve the best from their owners. David Walter, Balmain Greyhound Greyhound racing is in the spotlight again and once more there is a lack of balance in the reporting and a barrage of emotive language being used to describe the industry’s treatment of animals.
In my experience, as a former participant in the industry including as a vet, the use of words like cruelty, barbarism and mistreatment with respect to the dogs is simply not correct. There is a double standard at play when it comes to animals bred for racing. As a s.
