{"id":1228,"date":"2007-10-11T00:59:42","date_gmt":"2007-10-10T17:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=1228"},"modified":"2007-10-11T00:59:42","modified_gmt":"2007-10-10T17:59:42","slug":"fewer-vets-in-the-barnyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/fewer-vets-in-the-barnyard\/","title":{"rendered":"Fewer vets in the barnyard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most veterinarians in America were food-supply vets in the early 1900s but today, 70 percent of vets care for pets. Only 8,860, or 10 percent, of the nation&#8217;s 81,500 vets work with food-supply animals, which do not include horses.<\/p>\n<p>Food-supply vets protect the quality of the meat and dairy products that reach our kitchen tables, control disease and make sure animals are treated humanely. New York, the country&#8217;s third-largest dairy producer after California and Wisconsin, would feel the effects of a vet shortage.<\/p>\n<p>For more info <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/AspStories\/story.asp?storyID=628487&amp;category=REGION&amp;newsdate=10\/9\/2007\">click here\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most veterinarians in America were food-supply vets in the early 1900s but today, 70 percent of vets care for pets. Only 8,860, or 10 percent, of the nation&#8217;s 81,500 vets work with food-supply animals, which do not include horses. Food-supply vets protect the quality of the meat and dairy products that reach our kitchen tables, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry","category-veterinary-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228","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=1228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}