Filmmaker Ryuji Chua gives a comprehensive look at the history of the industry, its decline, and the myriad animal abuse issues that plague it. The film builds on the work of the incredible greyhound advocacy groups around the world that have already pushed this issue to where it is today.
RYUJI CHUA: Animal advocacy often feels like a long-term project, a mission that we may not see the end of in our lifetimes. However, there are “winnable issues” that, for various reasons, are closer to an end-point than others. One of those winnable issues is greyhound racing.
Greyhound racing is a gambling sport based on running dogs around a track in pursuit of a mechanical lure. Throughout the 1900s it blossomed into a multi-million dollar industry, resulting in suffering and death for thousands and thousands of dogs. Despite past popularity, though, the industry has declined significantly in the last couple of decades. It now stands on the precipice, waiting for advocates (or just inertia) to push it off the edge of the present and into our memories.
Pushes come in many forms. A push can be a concerted campaign that results in a new piece of legislation that puts an industry on the ropes. Or, a push could be a cultural shift away from a certain animal practice, such as recent shifts away from dairy consumption that have forced dairy companies to reconsider their business and get into making plant-based milks themselves. A push could also take the form of a film like Blackfish, which permanently changes the conversation around a particular topic, and in turn, impacts the industry on several levels at once.
In recent years, Faunalytics has made a point of sharing resources on greyhound racing that show just how vulnerable the industry is. Today, we present a film that we believe could serve as a push to help relegate the global greyhound racing industry to the dustbin of history. In Run To Death: The Rise & Fall Of Greyhound Racing, filmmaker Ryuji Chua gives a comprehensive look at the history of the industry, its decline, and the myriad animal abuse issues that plague it. The film builds on the work of the incredible greyhound advocacy groups around the world that have already pushed this issue to where it is today.
We hope that you’ll watch this new film and share it widely. Included below is a full transcript of the narration, sourced and cited. We’ve also included a list of greyhound advocacy organizations that you can support in our collective effort to end this industry once and for all. SOURCE…
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