• Re: I would have thought ....

    From Tony@21:1/5 to Gordon on Tue Dec 10 01:02:08 2024
    Gordon <Gordon@leaf.net.nz> wrote: >https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360516787/greyhound-racing-banned-shock-decision-time-has-come-do-right-thing

    Darn it all I would have thought that Labour might have stolen NZF thunder. >Once again the Labour/Green movement seems to have missed the poor treatment >of the racing dogs.

    These are strange and interesting times we live in.
    The question of racing greyhound safety has been debated for decades. I know it was in the 1980s.
    Successive governments have failed to adequately address it until now.
    There is also a movement, perhaps less vocal, concerned about horse racing and rodeos. Personally I think rodeos are horribly cruel, horseracing not as obviously so although when I was last on a racecourse (a rarity for me) a horse broke a leg and was euthanised.
    But I certainly support any decision to reduce avoidable suffering to animals and (most) human beings.

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  • From Gordon@21:1/5 to All on Tue Dec 10 00:18:50 2024
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360516787/greyhound-racing-banned-shock-decision-time-has-come-do-right-thing

    Darn it all I would have thought that Labour might have stolen NZF thunder. Once again the Labour/Green movement seems to have missed the poor treatment
    of the racing dogs.

    These are strange and interesting times we live in.

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