A petition targeting the Irish Greyhound Board and the Irish Government has been published on the Care2 website calling for the withdrawal of the IGB’s proposals to export greyhounds to China. Please sign the petition and help place pressure on the Irish authorities to show some care and compassion for this gentle breed.
The petition will be delivered to the Irish Embassy in London – the Irish Greyhound Board and Government offices.
Please support the campaign to stop Tesco supermarket from offering a Dog Racing Voucher to encourage people to go to watch greyhound racing. If you haven’t already written, here’s a template letter. Please, everyone, wherever you live, support this campaign. See end of post to read the original circular message.
· Call Clubcard free on 00800 00 59 16 88 to protest in person or
· send an email to customer.services@tesco.ie ,seamus.banim@tesco.ie, lorraine.shiels@tesco.ie,
. write to Tesco Ireland ,Gresham House,Marine Road, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, Ireland
Last Monday after months of planning between LUSH and greyhound protection groups the ‘Don’t Bet On It’ campaign launched itself into UK High Streets and Shopping Malls and UK shoppers were greeted with this message nationwide. At midday on 18th October 2010 the campaign went live online and LUSH issued hundreds of press releases to the national media and at long last a major UK company endorsed our cause and were prepared to promote and support the campaign to end the betting on dogs and commercial greyhound racing.
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