Greyhound

> Many of you will have seen Corrie on Friday night with a story line that
> promoted greyhound racing and actually mentioned Belle Vue twice! You can
> e-mail ITV at the following address: viewerservices@itv.com
>
> A sample letter is below or use your own. This has gone out on our
> Facebook
> page "Shut Down Belle Vue Greyhound Track in Manchester" and already lots
> of
> people have sent it off. ITV need to reflect the reality of greyhound
> racing, not the "LoveTheDogs" picture.
>
> Dear Sirs,
>
> I am really disgusted that Belle Vue was promoted (actually mentioned
> twice) last night in a Peter/Leanne Barlow scene. Perhaps you could have
> highlighted the reality of greyhound racing, namely that
> 10,000 greyhounds are killed every year by the industry and the "lucky"
> ones
> only live to 3 years old but are often caged up 23 hours a day;
>
> More and more exposes have revealed trainers drug their dogs to improve
> their performance. The latest being in last Sunday's Express which showed
> the shocking conditions dogs are kept in at 2 Manchester-based trainers:
> http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/297 ... disgusting
>
>
> How irresponsible of ITV for promoting such a cruel "sport".
>
> Kind regards,
>
> _______________________________________________________
>
> Websites: www.greyhoundaction.org.uk / www.actionforgreyhounds.co.uk
>
> If you would like to help protect other animals, as well as greyhounds,
> see http://www.animalaid.org.uk/h/n/campaigns
>
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