Please read and act on the important message below from Greyhound Action Ireland
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Many people involved in welfare and who are greyhound "owners" have been sending emails and letters to the Irish government to oppose the idea of sending greyhounds to China, and there have also been demonstrations at Irish embassies in several countries. This has had some affect on the Department of Agriculture, which very recently received a formal proposal from the Irish Greyhound Board to consider the China project.
However, it was learned TODAY that Adrian Neilan, the CEO of the Irish Greyhound Board, was at the government offices in Dublin lobbying for the government to sign off and give approval or commitment for the project. He is under pressure from the Chinese investors to get this underway immediately.
We need an ocean of reasonable and rational letters and emails to be sent to the powers that be in order to have any chance of not letting our beautiful greyhounds be sent to a place where there is no future for them, no comfort, not a chance in hell for them to ever have a good life of any kind.
There is no need to convince you with photos and videos showing unspeakable atrocities being done to dogs there - you can find these yourself on the internet. You will then know what sort of future China holds for our greyhounds, and it is not a place to send a dog.
I urge you to please, tonight or tomorrow, send a letter or email to the following people so that they hear our voices and will not overlook the welfare side of this issue. Ireland has been in the news too many times now for welfare issues, from the New York Times' coverage of the dreadful treatment of horses to Ireland's reputation as "the puppy farm capital of Europe", we don't want to also be known as the place that sent its greyhounds to a country with no animal welfare practice in place, where there is no overarching regulation of the veterinary profession, where even Australia does not choose to deal with the Chinese on this issue. We have only in recent years just managed for the racetracks in Spain to be closed down.....now we have China.
Please don't let our greyhounds be sent there. It will be hell on earth for them.
Please write to all 3 people:
Mr Simon Coveney
Minister for Agriculture
Agriculture House
Kildare St
Dublin 2.
Ireland
minister@agriculture.gov.ie
Shane McEntee
Minister of State at the Dept of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
same postal address as above
shane.mcentee@finegael.ie
Taoiseach Enda Kenny (taoiseach is Irish for Prime Minister)
Department of the Taoiseach
Government Buildings
Upper Merrion Street
Dublin 2
taoiseach@taoiseach.gov.ie
