Australian Greens Animal Welfare spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has welcomed the Senate\u2019s agreement to her motion acknowledging all Melbourne Cup horse deaths since 2013 and stating that no horse should die at a racetrack.
\nSenator Faruqi said:
\n\u201cThe Senate has sent a blunt message to the racing industry today: you have failed to protect the animals under your care. Enough is enough.
\n\u201cHorse racing is inherently dangerous for these animals. No horse is safe at an Australian racetrack.
\n\u201cWith NSW trainers now urging Racing Australia to strip power from Victorian racing authorities over the carnage of the Cup, it\u2019s clear the industry knows they\u2019ve lost their social license and are panicking.
\n\u201cHorses should not die at racetracks and they should not die at slaughterhouses when they are no longer profitable.
\n\u201cWe need to implement a proper national tracing system for all horses and an end to commercial horse racing,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Australian Greens Animal Welfare spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has welcomed the Senate\u2019s agreement to her motion acknowledging all Melbourne Cup horse deaths since 2013 and stating that no horse should die at a racetrack. Senator Faruqi said: \u201cThe Senate has sent a blunt message to the racing industry today: you have failed to protect the … Continue reading “Senate Says Horses Should Not Die At Racetracks”<\/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-9100","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\/9100","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=9100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}