AR-News: (Ireland) Drag coursing the better of two evils

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

RECENTLY, the Minister for Arts, Sports & Tourism, John O’Donoghue, informed 
an Irish animal welfare organisation that his officials raised the issue of 
introducing drag coursing with the Irish Coursing Club, but were told that “
coursing greyhounds would not follow a drag” and that “drag coursing would be 
unpopular“. 

The Association of Hunt Saboteurs call upon Mr O'Donoghue to take on board 
that the vast majority of Irish people (80% when last independently surveyed), 
want a total ban on the use of live hares for coursing. 

So drag coursing (where a mechanical lure is used instead of a live hare) may 
be "unpopular" amongst the tiny diehard minority who engage in this barbaric 
and outdated animal abuse, but it most certainly would be very popular with 
the Irish public. 




full story:
http://www.examiner.ie/pport/web/opinion/Full_Story/did-sgdOzAgaM-8jYsg7IQHSme
YhNE.asp 



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not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing.",
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