{"id":5210,"date":"2011-10-03T23:04:05","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T16:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=5210"},"modified":"2019-03-24T00:37:40","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T06:37:40","slug":"bill-would-amend-hpa-to-include-slaughter-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/bill-would-amend-hpa-to-include-slaughter-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill would Amend HPA to Include Slaughter Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Horse Protection Act (HPA) would be amended to include a ban on the transport, purchase, possession, or sale of horses for slaughter under new legislation introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives this week. Currently the HPA prohibits &#8220;soring,&#8221; the deliberate injury of a horse&#8217;s feet and legs to achieve an exaggerated high-stepping gait.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehorse.com\/ViewArticle.aspx?ID=18860\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> If passed, H.R. 2966 would amend the HPA to prohibit the shipping, transporting, moving, delivering, receiving, possessing, purchasing, selling, or donation of horses and other equines to be slaughtered for human consumption and other purposes.<\/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":[1132,568,1114],"class_list":["post-5210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-industry","category-thehorse","category-watching","tag-american-horse-slaughter-prevention-act-of-2011","tag-soring","tag-the-horse-protection-act"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5210","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=5210"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8955,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5210\/revisions\/8955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}