{"id":4716,"date":"2011-04-24T03:40:58","date_gmt":"2011-04-23T20:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=4716"},"modified":"2011-04-24T03:40:58","modified_gmt":"2011-04-23T20:40:58","slug":"texas-sheriff-investigates-animal-cruelty-video-rattling-cattle-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/texas-sheriff-investigates-animal-cruelty-video-rattling-cattle-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Sheriff Investigates Animal-Cruelty Video Rattling Cattle Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">County authorities in Texas are investigating a cattle farm for animal cruelty based on a graphic video of abuse being circulated by an animal-rights group.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Castro Country Sheriff&#8217;s office confirmed Wednesday that it is investigating abuse captured in a hidden-camera video and made public by Chicago-based Mercy For Animals. The video shows a farm employee hitting a cow in the head with a pick ax and standing on the neck of a calf among other instances of cruelty.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The sheriff&#8217;s office plans to submit its findings to the district attorney for possible prosecution, chief deputy sheriff Tom Taylor said in an interview. <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704658704576275091620222926.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>County authorities in Texas are investigating a cattle farm for animal cruelty based on a graphic video of abuse being circulated by an animal-rights group. The Castro Country Sheriff&#8217;s office confirmed Wednesday that it is investigating abuse captured in a hidden-camera video and made public by Chicago-based Mercy For Animals. The video shows a farm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry","category-watching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4716","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=4716"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4718,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4716\/revisions\/4718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}