New Info.: Kinship Circle LETTER/Stop Bill To Legalize Greyhound

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I am sorry that I circulated the wrong info. I had no idea. I received the first

alert, and since it came from Kinship Circle, and listed,

 

Greyhound Action

www.greyhoundaction.co.uk

 

Through Their Eyes, The National Animal Abuse Registry

 

as the source of info. I believed it! I had no reason not to.

 

Now I am wondering who was the source of the misleading info. as I am not happy

that I was used to circulate a lie! Unfortunately, when something like this

happens, the animals are the ones to suffer.

 

Again I appologize for my part in this.

Rita

 

 

 

 

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Greyhound Action

Rita Fazio

Tuesday, July 08, 2003 6:17 PM

Re: VERY BAD NEWS!! Kinship Circle LETTER/Stop Bill To Legalize

Greyhound

 

 

Hi Rita,

 

In case you haven't seen it already, below is the message we've just sent out on

this issue.

 

Best Wishes,

 

 

We recently circulated a message from Nick Mays asking people to help fight a

Bill in the State of Alabama, which he claimed would re-classify greyhounds as

livestock and allow them to be killed by any unlicenced individual.

 

We have now received the following message from GREY2K USA:-

 

Friends:

House Bill 37 has already been signed into law in Alabama.

Also, it is not true that this bill would have reclassified greyhounds as

livestock.

This bill was an attempt to close a loophole in current law by requiring that if

greyhounds are killed in Alabama, they must be killed by lethal injection.

Before this bill passed, greyhounds in Alabama could by legally killed by any

means.

GREY2K USA did not take a position on this bill, because we do not believe that

the most effective way to end the cruelty of dog racing is to require that

greyhounds be killed in a humane fashion. We believe that dog racing should be

outlawed.

 

Yours,

Carey Theil, President

GREY2K USA

 

 

It appears that greyhound protection campaigners in the USA adopted varying

attitudes towards the Bill. This is rather confusing, but can perhaps be

explained by the following from the Humane Society of the United States'

website:-

 

(House Bill 37)Mandates that lethal injection must be the sole means of

euthanizing greyhounds. Also prohibits taking a greyhound out of the state for

the purpose of euthanasia. The first violation of this act would be a Class C

misdemeanor; second and subsequent violations would be Class A misdemeanors.

While the legislation appears to give further protection to greyhounds, it

actually opens a loophole to the current animal cruelty law, which provides

felony-level penalties. Because this bill has now become law, those who kill

greyhounds by means other than lethal injection may only be charged with a

misdemeanor, no matter how cruel or egregious the method of killing may have

been.

 

Whatever people feel, nothing can be done about the Bill now anyway, as it has

already been signed into law.

 

Tony Peters, Greyhound Action

www.greyhoundaction.co.uk