{"id":1196,"date":"2007-09-25T13:12:21","date_gmt":"2007-09-25T06:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=1196"},"modified":"2007-09-25T13:12:21","modified_gmt":"2007-09-25T06:12:21","slug":"law-banning-horse-slaughter-upheld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/law-banning-horse-slaughter-upheld\/","title":{"rendered":"Law Banning Horse Slaughter Upheld"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 The nation&#8217;s last horse slaughtering plant could be forced to permanently close after a federal appeals court Friday upheld an Illinois law prohibiting the slaughter of horses for human consumption.<\/p>\n<p>A three-judge panel of the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals cited measures banning bullfights and cockfights to help explain why it was upholding the law.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;States have a legitimate interest in prolonging the lives of animals that their population happens to like,&#8221; the panel wrote. &#8220;They can ban bullfights and cockfights and the abuse and neglect of animals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For more info <a href=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5irKCD4wPC-ev1_YmY6p_WuwRpscw\">click here <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 The nation&#8217;s last horse slaughtering plant could be forced to permanently close after a federal appeals court Friday upheld an Illinois law prohibiting the slaughter of horses for human consumption. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals cited measures banning bullfights and cockfights to help explain why it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,14,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-industry","category-watching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}