{"id":342,"date":"2018-11-07T02:43:51","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T02:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=342"},"modified":"2018-11-07T02:43:51","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T02:43:51","slug":"australian-greens-senator-says-nup-to-the-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2018\/11\/07\/australian-greens-senator-says-nup-to-the-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Greens Senator Says &#039;Nup to the Cup&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Animal Welfare Spokesperson, Senator Mehreen Faruqi, has said &#8216;Nup to the Cup&#8217; and will join millions of Australians who won&#8217;t be participating in the Melbourne Cup today. A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2018\/nov\/06\/labor-pulls-further-in-front-of-coalition-as-morrisons-disapproval-rating-rises\">Guardian Essential Poll<\/a>\u00a0has found just 8% of Australians have a high interest in horse racing, and almost one third of Australians don&#8217;t participate in Melbourne Cup due to animal welfare and gambling concerns.<br \/>\nSenator Faruqi said: &#8220;Horse racing is an anachronism that is becoming less and less relevant by the day. Despite the gambling industry propaganda, millions of Australians today will be saying &#8216;nup to the cup&#8217; and I am one of them.<br \/>\n&#8220;Just a few months ago, the ABC revealed a culture of doping, drug abuse and cheating in horse racing. Images of starving ex-racing horsers show that animal cruelty and neglect are still rife.<br \/>\n&#8220;Whipping horses to make them run faster is just cruel. One racehorse dies every 3 days in Australia and 119 racehorses have died in the last racing year alone.<br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;m saying &#8216;Nup to the Cup&#8217; and I encourage others to not participate in gambling fueled animal cruelty,&#8221; she concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Animal Welfare Spokesperson, Senator Mehreen Faruqi, has said &#8216;Nup to the Cup&#8217; and will join millions of Australians who won&#8217;t be participating in the Melbourne Cup today. A\u00a0Guardian Essential Poll\u00a0has found just 8% of Australians have a high interest in horse racing, and almost one third of Australians don&#8217;t participate in Melbourne Cup &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2018\/11\/07\/australian-greens-senator-says-nup-to-the-cup\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Australian Greens Senator Says &#039;Nup to the Cup&#039;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}