Please Speak Out Against Bringing Slot Machines into Greyhound Race Tracks!!

One of the biggest obstacles to ending greyhound racing is that the greyhound racing industry is aggressively lobbying to bring slot machines and/or video gambling into many tracks throughout the country. Although interest in dog racing has been in steady decline over the last 10 years, the addition of these machines will enable track owners to fill the tracks with presumably a different group people who are simply interested in casino style gambling. With this scenario, the greyhounds become a side show that people really don't care about but must exist in order for the tracks to stay open and house the extremely lucrative video gambling & slot machines.

You may wonder, why not just get rid of the dog racing and just let them have the slot machines? The most logical reasons for continuing to operate the live dog racing part of the business are (a) because the tracks are only licensed as pari-mutuel facilities and must have live dog racing, and (b) the presence of live dog racing makes the idea of video gambling and slot machines much more palatable for politicians and the state legislature which may be reluctant to support an outright casino, but think dog racing is harmless and fun. Basically these poor dogs are being bred and killed in droves for the sole reason of enabling track owners to further enrich themselves by entering into the lucrative business of slot machine and video gambling.

The most frightening thing is that if the tracks are allowed to introduce casino style gambling, and the state starts getting its cut of the profit, it will be nearly impossible to end dog racing in that state. It is much easier to encourage lawmakers to get rid of dog racing because it is cruel and inhumane AND it is failing economically. If this additional type of gambling is introduced, it will be very difficult to convince a state government desperately in need of revenue, to get rid of a lucrative, tax paying, gambling business.

If you live in a greyhound racing state, it is very important that you LET YOUR STATE LAWMAKERS KNOW THAT YOU OPPOSE THE INTRODUCTION OF SLOT MACHINES and VIDEO GAMBLING INTO GREYHOUND RACE TRACKS!!!!

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Thank you for your help!!

Read about recent efforts to block the introduction of slot machines in:

Alabama

Arizona

Florida

Kansas

New Hampshire

 

To learn more about the slot machine issue and what you can do to help, please visit this informative website: www.greyhoundcentral.org