{"id":3180,"date":"2010-03-30T00:29:31","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T17:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=3180"},"modified":"2010-03-30T00:29:31","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T17:29:31","slug":"south-dakota-seeks-usda-horsemeat-inspections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/south-dakota-seeks-usda-horsemeat-inspections\/","title":{"rendered":"South Dakota Seeks USDA Horsemeat Inspections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers in South Dakota have passed a resolution seeking the reinstatement of USDA inspection of horse processing plants. A federal appeals court ceased private-pay funding for horsemeat inspections in 2007, effectively shutting down processing plants in Illinois and Texas.<\/p>\n<p>SCR 4 asks Congress to reinstate and fully fund the USDA&#8217;s horse slaughter and processing facilities inspection program.<\/p>\n<p>The resolution also urges Congress to defeat HR503\/SB 727, the Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act, which prohibits the transport of horses to processing plants in Mexico and Canada. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehorse.com\/ViewArticle.aspx?ID=16070\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers in South Dakota have passed a resolution seeking the reinstatement of USDA inspection of horse processing plants. A federal appeals court ceased private-pay funding for horsemeat inspections in 2007, effectively shutting down processing plants in Illinois and Texas. SCR 4 asks Congress to reinstate and fully fund the USDA&#8217;s horse slaughter and processing facilities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,14,40,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-industry","category-thehorse","category-watching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3180","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=3180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3181,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3180\/revisions\/3181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}