{"id":1487,"date":"2008-06-24T23:09:58","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T16:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=1487"},"modified":"2008-06-24T23:44:27","modified_gmt":"2008-06-24T16:44:27","slug":"badly-needed-funding-for-farad-authorized-animal-fighting-law-strengthened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/badly-needed-funding-for-farad-authorized-animal-fighting-law-strengthened\/","title":{"rendered":"Badly needed funding for FARAD authorized, animal fighting law strengthened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Congress handed President Bush the second veto override of his presidency May 22 when it mustered the votes to pass the $307 billion farm bill. Apart from the political wrangling and clerical gaffe surrounding the controversial reauthorization legislation, the AVMA had cause to applaud some veterinary-related provisions within it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;Overall, the AVMA is pleased with the final outcome of the farm bill,&#8221; said Dr. Mark T. Lutschaunig, director of the AVMA Governmental Relations Division, which has been working with Congress on many of the measures. &#8220;We would like to thank the House and Senate Agriculture committees for including provisions that will improve food safety and strengthen animal health and welfare.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For more on this story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avma.org\/onlnews\/javma\/jul08\/080701a.asp\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress handed President Bush the second veto override of his presidency May 22 when it mustered the votes to pass the $307 billion farm bill. Apart from the political wrangling and clerical gaffe surrounding the controversial reauthorization legislation, the AVMA had cause to applaud some veterinary-related provisions within it. &#8220;Overall, the AVMA is pleased with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,14,31,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-industry","category-veterinary-medicine","category-watching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487","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=1487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}