{"id":5351,"date":"2011-12-07T01:59:22","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T18:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=5351"},"modified":"2019-03-24T00:01:08","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T06:01:08","slug":"michigans-horse-industry-quietly-relieved-that-slaughter-option-may-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/michigans-horse-industry-quietly-relieved-that-slaughter-option-may-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigans horse industry quietly relieved that slaughter option may return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A small\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/irjci.blogspot.com\/2011\/11\/horse-slaughter-legal-again-following.html\">appropriations bill passed by Congress this month<\/a> will allow slaughter houses to resume killing horses for export to countries where people eat horse meat \u2014 a move that has strong support among most members of the horse industry, said Val Vail-Shirey, executive director of Michigan Equine Partnership in Lansing.<\/p>\n<p>The shut-down of the U.S. horse slaughter houses that resulted when, back in 2006, funding for their inspection was eliminated,\u00a0 was probably done with the best of intentions, Vail-Shirey said. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/news\/kalamazoo\/index.ssf\/2011\/11\/michigans_horse_industry_quiet.html\">READ MORE&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small\u00a0appropriations bill passed by Congress this month will allow slaughter houses to resume killing horses for export to countries where people eat horse meat \u2014 a move that has strong support among most members of the horse industry, said Val Vail-Shirey, executive director of Michigan Equine Partnership in Lansing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5351","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=5351"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8904,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5351\/revisions\/8904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}