News broke today of a practice that frankly made me feel sick as I read about it and I wanted to share it with all of you, not to make you feel sick but to make you angry, shocked and disgusted all at the same time. I have people messaging me every day stating that my views are misguided, personally attacking me for making up "facts" that are completely off the mark because very few greyhounds are slaughtered every year and those that are happen to be old and ill.
This is not the case and Daniel Foggo, a renowned investigative journalist, has proved it for me.
Foggo broke the story in The Times newspaper today that the Royal Veterinary College in England has a financial agreement with the Greyhound Clinic, located in Essex, England. The latter provides the bodies of healthy greyhounds for the RVC at £30 per body part. The RVC has a number of similar agreements with other vet practices, which ultimately means that hndreds if not thousands of greyhound are slaughtered every year for a profit of £30 each.
The RSPCA, not surprisingly, is horrified and has spoken out against the practce as well as launching an investigation.
Of course the information provided above is just the tip of the icebeg. There is much more in the article itself which can be found at this Times Online link. Please speak out, read the article and leave your comments here or elsewhere to show your outrage. We need voices now because otherwise nothing will ever change.
Sunday, March 2, 2008
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