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To: Bill who wrote (100428)	4/6/2005 4:28:52 PM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 108807

Well, they are kept in small crates, except for brief exercise runs when they are allowed out to go to the bathroom (4-6 times a day). They live in their crates. And they are often fed raw, diseased meat. Here is the report of a former track veterinarian from Iowa: greyhounds.org YOU WOULDN'T FEED IT TO A DOG... but it's good enough for racing greyhounds FROM A FORMER TRACK VETERINARIAN: "When cattle die, regardless of what infectious or contagious disease, the carcasses are often salvaged by rendering plants. The cadavers are boned out, the flesh ground and frozen. It is not heated, cooked, or sterilized in any way. The rendering plants are not USDA inspected but they are 'monitored' and are required to add charcoal to it to keep it out of the human food chain. They label it 'unfit for human consumption.' The greyhound people feed each animal a ration of this 'pathogenic smorgasbord' daily. They have the erroneous idea that when greyhounds are fed raw meat they run faster. Of course, the meat may contain many pathogens that killed the cattle in the first place as well as many of the drugs that were used to treat the sick cattle before they died. As a member of the Iowa Veterinary Public Health Committee I made a strong effort to have this problem addressed, but was unable to accomplish anything. The committee chairman stated that he wanted to avoid controversy. The Racing Commission told me not to be concerned. The Bureau of Animal Industries office in Des Moines told me that they have no intention of enforcing the laws on the racetracks of America and that this was the duty of the state vet. The state vet told me that he had no jurisdiction because the Racing Commission was set up by the legislature to be a self-regulating entity and that it was up to veterinarians like myself (who had contracts with the Racing Commission) to see that the laws were compiled with." Dr. Arthur Strohbehn, DVM Former Track Veterinarian Council Bluffs, Iowa