{"id":4007,"date":"2019-10-25T06:57:21","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T06:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=4007"},"modified":"2019-10-25T06:57:21","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T06:57:21","slug":"horse-register-must-be-led-by-federal-government-greens-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/10\/25\/horse-register-must-be-led-by-federal-government-greens-warn\/","title":{"rendered":"Horse Register Must be led by Federal Government Greens Warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greens Spokesperson for Animal Welfare, Senator for NSW Dr Mehreen Faruqi, has responded to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/politics\/federal\/agriculture-minister-pushes-state-racing-ministers-for-national-horse-register-20191025-p53472.html?ref=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_source=rss_politics_federal\">reports<\/a>\u00a0the federal Agriculture Minister has asked states to consider a national horse register at today\u2019s meeting of agriculture ministers.<br \/>\nSenator Faruqi said:<br \/>\n\u201cI established the inquiry into a national \u00a0horse traceability register to help prevent the kind of shocking cruelty we saw on our screens last week.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Greens were the first to champion a birth-to-death horse register, but any register must provide real transparency and real teeth.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s good to see some movement from the Minister, but it\u2019s not good enough to just ask states to consider a national horse register. No more buck passing.<br \/>\n\u201cMinister McKenzie must step up and the Federal Government should lead on a national register without shifting responsibility to the states who have a poor record on animal welfare.<br \/>\n\u201cThe billion-dollar racing industry relies on breeding thousands of horses purely for their gambling profits through racing. They have completely abdicated their moral and financial responsibility to guarantee those horses a good life. A horse register will help change that.<br \/>\n\u201cTracing horses throughout their lives will solve part of the problem. We need strong enforcement and strong animal welfare laws as well. The Greens have long advocated for an independent office for animal welfare which can do this.<br \/>\n\u201cAt the end of the day, the racing industry\u2019s neglect of racehorses and their attempts to mislead the public demand a Royal Commission to lift the lid on an industry that has long escaped scrutiny,\u201d she concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greens Spokesperson for Animal Welfare, Senator for NSW Dr Mehreen Faruqi, has responded to\u00a0reports\u00a0the federal Agriculture Minister has asked states to consider a national horse register at today\u2019s meeting of agriculture ministers. Senator Faruqi said: \u201cI established the inquiry into a national \u00a0horse traceability register to help prevent the kind of shocking cruelty we saw &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/10\/25\/horse-register-must-be-led-by-federal-government-greens-warn\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Horse Register Must be led by Federal Government Greens Warn&#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-4007","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\/4007","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=4007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}