No, no no no no no!

[bunn]

Comic Relief is selling tickets to greyhound racing on ebay.

A world free from poverty is a noble aspiration, but two wrongs don't make a right.

Comments

[chainmailmaiden]

Oh dear, that's not good at all. You'd think with all the negative publicity about the consequences of the racing industry in the last year they wouldn't want to be associated with it :-(

[the-marquis.livejournal.com]

I suspect they don't know about the ins and outs of it. Maybe someone should help them ...

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Oh, believe me, they have been told. Both by direct message to the ebay seller, and emails to the organisation. Now considering contacting the trustees via their agents, but I am not sure if such messages would be handed on. :-(

We are getting a 'all this will be considered after the event is over' standard message. Which is useless: by then the damage will be done: racing is given a healthy glow by association with a 'good cause' and a trip to the races becomes that much more normalised as a healthy night out, rather than the deeply dodgy business it is.

[chainmailmaiden]

Don't know if you're doing this as a charity or as individuals or both, but If you need more people to express their negative feelings about this, give me the contact info and I'll write them too.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's a coordinated campaign: it's not an Oldies Club protest anyway. Just a bunch of loud, annoying, opinionated folk... :-p

Comic Relief's contact details are here if you'd like to tell them why you think this is a bad idea:

http://www.comicrelief.com/all-about-us/contact-us/

The more contacts, the more likely it is they will consider the issue seriously rather than dismissing it as something of interest to only a few cranks (like me!)

[chainmailmaiden]

Thanks, they'll definitely be getting an email from me too.

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

I have not bought a special Red Nose Day jam tart from the canteen all day in protest. And you know how much I like strawberry jam tarts.