Anyone else get this feeling…
It just keeps happening over and over…
too many bred – too many discarded – too many dead – (though not what is said) – corruption, cruelty, rotten to the core – (claims it’s not done by all) – cruelty and neglect, misery and suffering, whimsical welfare, Government support and public funds – sanctioned abuse – exposés, investigations, inquiries, submissions, hearings, reports, recommendations, foregone conclusions – opposition, public outrage, abhorrence, social licence lost – yet another chance – new people – bandaid policies – shiny marketing – more deaths – more births – no homes – more births – more harm – more smoke – more deceit – more dirt – more inquiries.
The continuing cycle of same-same
– complicit cruelty, corruption and carnage.
The quote below is from this article, Under Minns, NSW is driven by gambling, shock jocks and idiocy.
“…confronted with further, extensive evidence of how monstrous the greyhound exploitation industry is, is Minns moving to finally shut down an industry that has demonstrated over many years that it is utterly incapable of operating without butchering and torturing dogs?
Of course not.
The core issue exposed by the former chief veterinary officer of Greyhound Racing NSW Alex Brittan is the same one that greyhound welfare campaigners have been trying to bring to public attention for years: quite apart from the brutality of racing itself, which sees scores of dogs killed a year, the industry continues to massively over-produce dogs in such numbers that it is impossible to find homes for them all.
The only way to deal with the discrepancy is by quietly killing the surplus dogs. The result is the industry has been hiding the true number of dog deaths — by the thousands, despite scams like sending dogs to the United States.
NSW Labor is an ardent supporter of greyhound exploitation — it’s the main reason the industry still exists in NSW, after it opposed then premier Mike Baird’s effort to shut the industry down in 2015.
Racing Minister David Harris has only turned on Greyhound Racing NSW (GRNSW) after 2GB radio host Ray Hadley — another loud opponent of the Baird ban who has attacked greyhound welfare groups in the past — turned on GRNSW, revealing details of bullying, animal abuse and deaths of dogs being transported to the US, and questioning GRNSW’s rehoming figure.
In May, Hadley called for the GRNSW board to be sacked. Harris fell into line last week and asked the board to show cause why they shouldn’t be terminated.
Changing the GRNSW board isn’t going to magically fix the abuse inherent in greyhound exploitation. At best — for Labor — it will produce a board better able to cover up that the industry cannot exist without industrial-scale abuse and butchery of dogs. But Minns preemptively ruled out shuttering the industry…”
#MikeWasRight
