Greens spokesperson for animal welfare, Senator Mehreen Faruqi, has called on people and businesses to say \u2018nup\u2019 to the Melbourne Cup today.
\nSenator Faruqi said:
\n\u201cI\u2019m calling on everyone to join me and many other Australians in saying \u2018nup\u2019 to the Melbourne Cup and all cruelty to horses.
\n\u201cI\u2019m overwhelmed by the surge in support for #NupToTheCup. It\u2019s clear the community values animal welfare and the racing industry will end up on the wrong side of history if they ignore this strong community sentiment.
\n\u201cYear after year we see the needless painful deaths of horses, including five in the last six Melbourne Cups.
\n\u201cMore and more people are recognising that animals never win when gambling profits are at stake. That\u2019s why I say \u2018nup\u2019 to the cup.
\n\u201cAfter all the evidence of animal cruelty and racehorses being sent to slaughterhouses in appalling conditions, we urgently need a Royal Commission into cruelty in horse racing to hold the industry to account,\u201d she concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Greens spokesperson for animal welfare, Senator Mehreen Faruqi, has called on people and businesses to say \u2018nup\u2019 to the Melbourne Cup today. Senator Faruqi said: \u201cI\u2019m calling on everyone to join me and many other Australians in saying \u2018nup\u2019 to the Melbourne Cup and all cruelty to horses. \u201cI\u2019m overwhelmed by the surge in support … Continue reading “Say \u2018Nup\u2019 To The Cup Today: Greens Senator”<\/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-4116","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\/4116","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=4116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}