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Letters Dog Racing: Cruel Business published in The Aug. 26 article, "When Dog Days Can Be Pleasant" (Life section) was
nothing more than a tasteless advertisement for one of the most cruel and
despicable of industries. The greyhound racing industry is inherently cruel, and the dogs suffer
horribly from the day they are born on the breeding farm, to the training
farm, in transport, and at racetracks. Muzzled greyhounds are often forced
to live in crates for 18-20 hours per day. The Greyhound Protection League
www.greyhounds.org has said the industry
kills 20,000 to 25,000 healthy greyhounds each year because they are unable
to run fast enough. Every week at tracks around the country, truckloads of
failed or injured greyhounds are killed or sent to research laboratories.
Fortunately, there is moral progress. As the public becomes more and more
educated about what goes on behind the scenes, greyhound racing is losing
popularity. It is already illegal in 34 states. The two Connecticut
racetracks are straggling to survive. Idaho Governor, Phil Batt, said it best, "Dog racing depends upon
selecting a few highly competitive dogs out of a large group. It hardly
seems worth it to me to go through that process of breeding and killing the
ones that can't compete, just to have the sport." Readers can educate themselves about this issue by going to
www.greyhounds.org
. I urge the public to not support this barbaric business. Barbara I. Biel
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