THEIL ATTACKS REPORT CITING PROBLEMS IN GREYHOUND RACING..SAY WHAT??
Grey2K USA is an organization that rakes in hundreds of thousands of dollars each year by attacking greyhound racing. So when the New Zealand Greyhound Racing Association released a report that highlighted several problems in the sport in that country, you’d have thought Grey2K founder Carey Theil would have been thrilled.
You’d have thought wrong. In his July 30 blog, Theil called the report “two-faced” and “bizarre.” The reason? The review also acknowledged that most people in New Zealand greyhound racing are strongly committed to providing proper care for their racers, and do a good job at it.
Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised that Carey rejects any hint of objectivity or fairness when it comes to greyhound racing. In Carey’s world, everyone in greyhound racing does everything wrong all the time.
Contrast that with the real world, where greyhound racing organizations and the individuals in the sport work hard every day to provide the best possible care for their greyhounds from birth to retirement. When racing community members fail to meet their animal welfare obligations, they are banned from the sport for life. This policy leaves no room for doubt about the importance of proper animal care.
Every business is comprised of many people who do things right, and a few who do things wrong. We should praise any organization that makes an honest effort to shed light on both groups within its ranks; it takes a special kind of institutional courage to do so.
Perhaps that is what upset Carey Theil, who likes to position himself as the one true “authority” on greyhound racing worldwide. Carey has no time for objectivity, fairness or truth. He paints everybody in greyhound racing with one color: black. And if he’s not the one doing the painting, he has no use for the picture.