{"id":3273,"date":"2010-04-26T21:51:48","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T14:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=3273"},"modified":"2010-04-26T21:51:48","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T14:51:48","slug":"horses-undergo-pre-slaughter-stress-study-confirms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/horses-undergo-pre-slaughter-stress-study-confirms\/","title":{"rendered":"HORSES UNDERGO PRE-SLAUGHTER STRESS, STUDY CONFIRMS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That horses endure significant stress while waiting to be slaughtered has often been assumed. But a new study measuring stress hormone levels now confirms that theory, according to Italian researchers. In the 45 minutes between removal from the holding area and stunning by captive bolt, horses&#8217; norepinephrine levels rose tenfold and epinephrine levels increased to 30 times the base rate. <a href=\"http:\/\/maestro-trk.bloodhorse.com\/trk\/click?ref=zqoqmnmb8_1-1b51x3dc2cx18993&#038;\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That horses endure significant stress while waiting to be slaughtered has often been assumed. But a new study measuring stress hormone levels now confirms that theory, according to Italian researchers. In the 45 minutes between removal from the holding area and stunning by captive bolt, horses&#8217; norepinephrine levels rose tenfold and epinephrine levels increased to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry","category-thehorse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3273","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=3273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3274,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3273\/revisions\/3274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}