Australian Greens Animal Welfare spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has responded to the death of the Melbourne Cup racehorse Anthony Van Dyck.
\nSenator Faruqi said:
\n\u201cThis is the brutal reality of horse racing. Anthony Van Dyck\u2019s death is a tragic but hardly unforeseeable outcome. Seven horses have now died as a result of the last eight Melbourne Cup races.
\n\u201cHorse racing is deadly and completely inhumane. We need to shut this industry down.
\n\u201cKilling horses for entertainment is barbaric. There is no place for commercial horse racing in our society.
\n\u201cHorse racing and gambling is a toxic mix of death and misery for animals. There are no winners.
\n\u201cThe gambling-fuelled racing industry cannot be trusted or fixed. Last week I called on the Victorian authorities to cancel the Cup. Of course they pressed ahead with the race, but now, frankly, they have blood on their hands.
\n\u201cYear after year we see horses die at the Melbourne Cup. No horse is safe in this race.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s time to recognise that horse racing is completely incompatible with animal welfare. These are beautiful animals, sentient beings, who are treated as fodder for the profits of the gambling and racing industries,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Australian Greens Animal Welfare spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has responded to the death of the Melbourne Cup racehorse Anthony Van Dyck. Senator Faruqi said: \u201cThis is the brutal reality of horse racing. Anthony Van Dyck\u2019s death is a tragic but hardly unforeseeable outcome. Seven horses have now died as a result of the last eight … Continue reading “R.I.P. Anthony Van Dyck”<\/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-9023","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\/9023","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=9023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}