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C Bee J's avatar

Put basically this is the closing down of a business that is a customer of many businesses in the community.

They put income into the southland community, use hotels rooms when racing is on, fuel diesel petrol , buy food this when u really think about it brings in money to the southland economy that means they spend money with southland business's.

Not ad big a loss as tiwai when it closes but still a loss of revenue for our businesses locally.

Who will be next rodeo or horse racing.

These are both also events that can have days where things can go badly wrong.

As can any event, got to ask why the spotlight on greyhounds specifically.

Not across the broader picture of animal events ie rodeo, dog trials, the sad outcome for dogs that don't trial well is death/ shot.

Feel for those who will soon lose their life time passion.

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Anony Mouse's avatar

Any appeals would be based on income loss, which is far less important than animal welfare.

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C Bee J's avatar

Hmmm animal welfare is a broad category, encompassing many things.

Generalization is not helpful.

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Adrian Wohlers's avatar

If they were really genuinely concerned about animal welfare, then why didn't they start with the 9000 dogs that SPCA euthanize every year, 11 daily in Auckland alone. 9000 spca deaths against 9 greyhound race deaths last 12 months....tell me where the most attention is needed !!!!!

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Anony Mouse's avatar

Two things can be true at the same time, though. If that's a current issue, they SHOULD address that, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't address greyhounds just because they haven't addressed another issue.

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Kerry Du Pont's avatar

Winston is shrewd, not stupid. Ending greyhound racing will save operational costs and it’s a good humanitarian angle. But how to make up the shortfall? It’s only three days ago that Peters was in the news for wanting to amend the Racing Industry Act 2020, making it so that only TAB/Entain could operate online betting in Aotearoa. There are four other offshore platforms who operate within in NZ, so if they were barred from serving here, TAB picks up their profits. Maybe that dollar amount isn’t as large as what greyhounds had been making, but Entain has big growth plans. We could expect to see more race meets, being produced more cheaply, and in the end the financial balance will be there.

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Matt Couldrey's avatar

Good riddance. I didn't know this government was capable of making good decisions...

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