{"id":12624,"date":"2011-06-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=12624"},"modified":"2011-06-01T14:04:57","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T13:04:57","slug":"australian-cattle-trade-halted-over-cruelty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2011\/06\/australian-cattle-trade-halted-over-cruelty\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Cattle Trade Halted Over &#8216;Cruelty&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian government has suspended live cattle exports to 11 Indonesian abattoirs featured in a television programme showing steers being whipped and taking minutes to bleed to death.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Ludwig, the Agriculture Minister, said the suspension would be in force while an investigator reviewed the A$330m (\u00a3214m)-a-year live cattle trade with Indonesia. Mr Ludwig warned that more slaughterhouses could be added to the list, but Indonesia&#8217;s agriculture ministry said its methods were based on Islamic teachings.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/australasia\/australian-cattle-trade-halted-over-cruelty-2291475.html\" > <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/australasia\/australian-cattle-trade-halted-over-cruelty-2291475.html\" >Go to Original \u2013 independent.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian government has suspended live cattle exports to 11 Indonesian abattoirs featured in a television programme showing steers being whipped and taking minutes to bleed to death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-rights-vegetarianism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}