{"id":5260,"date":"2011-10-25T10:53:05","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T03:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=5260"},"modified":"2019-03-24T00:25:07","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T06:25:07","slug":"slaughter-of-horses-goes-on-just-not-in-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/slaughter-of-horses-goes-on-just-not-in-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Slaughter of Horses Goes On, Just Not in U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LINCOLN, Neb. \u2014 The closing of the country\u2019s last meat processing plant that slaughtered horses for human consumption was hailed as a victory for equine welfare. But five years later just as many American horses are destined for dinner plates to satisfy the still robust appetites for their meat in Europe and Asia.<\/p>\n<p>Now they are carved into tartare de cheval or basashi sashimi in Mexico and Canada.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/10\/24\/us\/Horse-Slaughter-Stopped-in-United-States-Moves-Across-Borders.html?_r=1\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That shift is one of the many unintended consequences of a de facto federal ban on horse slaughter, according to a recent federalgovernment study. As the domestic market for unwanted horses shrinks, more are being neglected and abandoned, and roughly the same number \u2014 nearly 140,000 a year \u2014 are being killed after a sometimes grueling journey across the border<\/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-5260","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\/5260","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=5260"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8939,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5260\/revisions\/8939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}