{"id":9035,"date":"2020-11-06T01:25:07","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T01:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=9035"},"modified":"2020-11-06T01:25:07","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T01:25:07","slug":"greens-back-independent-inquiry-into-melbourne-cup-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/11\/06\/greens-back-independent-inquiry-into-melbourne-cup-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Greens Back Independent Inquiry Into Melbourne Cup Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Greens have backed calls from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/horseracingkills.com\/2020\/11\/06\/extreme-suffering-prologed-to-avoid-bad-pr\/\">animal welfare groups and an equine veterinarian<\/a>\u00a0for an independent investigation and necropsy report into the death of the racehorse Anthony Van Dyck following Tuesday\u2019s Melbourne Cup race.<br \/>\n<strong>Senator Mehreen Faruqi, Australian Greens spokesperson for Animal Welfare, said:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cTuesday\u2019s race was horrific. There are serious questions to answer about this racehorse death. There must be no industry cover-up.<br \/>\n\u201cHorse racing kills. No horse is safe at the Melbourne Cup.<br \/>\n\u201cEvery year, more and more people are saying \u2018nup\u2019 to the Cup and rejecting this carnival of cruelty.<br \/>\n\u201cUltimately we need to see an end to the Melbourne Cup and the brutality of commercial horse racing,\u201d she said.<br \/>\n<strong>Ellen Sandell MP, Acting Leader of the Victorian Greens, said:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cEvery year the Greens call on the state government to end animal cruelty at the hands of our racing industry &#8211; and every year the government tries to pretend they have no power to stop it.<br \/>\n&#8220;The reality is that our government&#8217;s cosy relationship with the racing industry has prevented them from putting an end to cruelty against horses. Even a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic wasn&#8217;t enough to warrant them closing the gates this year.<br \/>\n&#8220;We need an independent investigation into Anthony Van Dyck&#8217;s death so that our government can wake up to the unnecessary pain and cruelty the Melbourne Cup inflicts on horses.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Greens have backed calls from\u00a0animal welfare groups and an equine veterinarian\u00a0for an independent investigation and necropsy report into the death of the racehorse Anthony Van Dyck following Tuesday\u2019s Melbourne Cup race. Senator Mehreen Faruqi, Australian Greens spokesperson for Animal Welfare, said: \u201cTuesday\u2019s race was horrific. There are serious questions to answer about this racehorse &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/11\/06\/greens-back-independent-inquiry-into-melbourne-cup-death\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Greens Back Independent Inquiry Into Melbourne Cup Death&#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-9035","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\/9035","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=9035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}