{"id":5097,"date":"2011-08-16T02:42:09","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T19:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=5097"},"modified":"2019-03-24T00:55:33","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T06:55:33","slug":"congress-urged-to-act-on-horse-slaughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/congress-urged-to-act-on-horse-slaughter\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress urged to act on horse slaughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">WASHINGTON \u2013 Horse rancher M.C. Baker says he opposes inhumane treatment of horses &#8211; that\u2019s why he believes the federal government was wrong to halt horse slaughter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Baker, a self-described &#8220;grouchy old veterinarian&#8221; who runs horse breeding center Alpha Equine in Granbury, Texas, said by removing funding for inspections of slaughter facilities five years ago, Congress created a cure worse than the disease.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">After all, horse owners have to do something with aging animals. So, many are slaughtered anyway &#8211; but in Mexico instead of the U.S., a new congressional report indicates <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/business\/general\/view\/20110813congress_urged_to_act_on_horse_slaughter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Horse rancher M.C. Baker says he opposes inhumane treatment of horses &#8211; that\u2019s why he believes the federal government was wrong to halt horse slaughter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,14,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-industry","category-watching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5097","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=5097"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8982,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5097\/revisions\/8982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}