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HuffPost.com, a prominent online news site, should insist on a “higher standard of reporting,” according to National Greyhound Association (NGA) Executive Director Gary Guccione. The comment was contained in Guccione’s May 26 response to a recent article by HuffPost contributor Rahel Gebreyes on Grey2K USA and its co-founder, Christine Dorchak.
As if the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) didn’t have enough problems, it’s now feeling the impact of a massive advertising campaign focused right where it lives–on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.
The “Discover the Scam” campaign conducted by HumaneWatch.org has succeeded in convincing Discover Card to discontinue its partnership with the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS).
We’ve been saying for years that animal rights groups are not about greyhound welfare. Recently, a Florida animal rights group did something that proved our point.
In a letter submitted today to the editor of the Dubuque Telegraph-Herald, AGC Communications Coordinator Gary Guccione accused Grey2K USA of “peddling false propaganda” and basing its campaign against greyhound racing on “myth and misrepresentation.”
The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and Grey2K USA are now pushing for the adoption of legislation to ban greyhound racing in Oregon, where the sport hasn’t been active since the closure of Multnomah Greyhound Park in 2004.
HumaneWatch.org is calling for a national boycott of Discover, now that the credit card company has announced that it will donate funds to the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) with every purchase made using Discover’s new Affinity card. The Discover deal could net HSUS as much as $1 million a year.
Two greyhound adoption groups, one based in Canada and the other in North Carolina, have been named winners of the American Greyhound Council’s (AGC) Greyhound Adoption Program of the Year (GAPY) Award for 2014. They are S.O.S. Levriers de Quebec, Shirley Smith, Director; and Project Racing Home Greyhounds, Kimberly Jewell, Director. Each organization will receive a $1,000 donation from the AGC.
New Jersey residents had more than their Thanksgiving turkey to think about last week, when HumaneWatch.org aired a sixty-second radio ad attacking the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) for deceptive fundraising practices.
In an unprecedented policy change, the National Greyhound Association (NGA) has amended its bylaws to impose tough penalties on members found guilty of neglecting or mistreating any animals–not just greyhounds–for which the member is responsible.