{"id":5737,"date":"2020-03-30T06:30:09","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T06:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=5737"},"modified":"2020-03-30T06:30:09","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T06:30:09","slug":"no-more-racing-animal-cruelty-is-not-an-essential-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/03\/30\/no-more-racing-animal-cruelty-is-not-an-essential-service\/","title":{"rendered":"No More Racing \u2013 Animal Cruelty Is Not An Essential Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Senator for NSW and Animal Welfare spokesperson Dr Mehreen Faruqi has said that all greyhound and horse racing should cease immediately in Australia.<br \/>\n<strong>Senator Faruqi said:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s galling that greyhound and horse racing is allowed to continue in this public health crisis.<br \/>\n\u201cOrganised sports, cinemas, restaurants and shops are shutting down but the government is turning a blind eye to these cruel industries.<br \/>\n\u201cWe need an immediate moratorium on racing. Animal cruelty is not an essential service.<br \/>\n\u201cSo many in our community are self-isolating and making sacrifices at the moment, but it seems there is one rule for the gambling-fuelled racing industry and another rule for the rest of us.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s time for racing to be stopped in its tracks and for the industries to look after the horses and greyhounds they have responsibility for.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s the health of the community and animals that should be top priority, not gambling profits,\u201d she concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Senator for NSW and Animal Welfare spokesperson Dr Mehreen Faruqi has said that all greyhound and horse racing should cease immediately in Australia. Senator Faruqi said: \u201cIt\u2019s galling that greyhound and horse racing is allowed to continue in this public health crisis. \u201cOrganised sports, cinemas, restaurants and shops are shutting down but the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/03\/30\/no-more-racing-animal-cruelty-is-not-an-essential-service\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;No More Racing \u2013 Animal Cruelty Is Not An Essential Service&#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-5737","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\/5737","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=5737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}