{"id":756593,"date":"2019-03-20T09:32:23","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T13:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=756593"},"modified":"2019-03-20T10:18:58","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T14:18:58","slug":"rise-of-horse-deaths-at-santa-anita-to-be-investigated-by-district-attorney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=756593","title":{"rendered":"Rise of horse deaths at Santa Anita to be investigated by district attorney"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>Judy Chu, who serves in the State House of Representatives, also called for an investigation, stating 'until we know the horses are safe, the Santa Anita race track should be closed'.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ERIC SONDHEIMER:<\/strong><em> &#8216;PETA has requested that an investigation be conducted into the horse deaths as violations of the California cruelty-to-animal laws. In the three-page letter to Jackie Lacey, L.A. district attorney, the animal-rights advocacy group cited historical data but nothing specific about the current deaths of horses&#8230; The Los Angeles district attorney\u2019s office assigned investigators to look into the deaths of 22 horses since Dec. 26.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201cWe\u2019re happy to have them involved,\u201d Baedeker said. \u201cWe can explain our current process and get them the information they\u2019re looking for. They were happy to learn we have sworn officers, some of who used to work for the district attorney. We\u2019ll get them what they need, as I\u2019m sure anyone else in the industry will do.\u201d In a news release, PETA said an investigation should look at trainers and veterinarians&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Judy Chu, who serves in the House of Representatives for the area of the San Gabriel Valley that includes Arcadia, also called for an investigation. She said the House Energy and Commerce Committee should \u201cinvestigate and hold a hearing on the treatment of horses at Santa Anita and throughout our country. \u2026 Until we know the horses are safe, the Santa Anita [race track] should be closed&#8221;.&#8217;<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/more\/la-sp-santa-anita-horse-deaths-20190315-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rEcRY46csn4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ERIC SONDHEIMER: &#8216;PETA has requested that an investigation be conducted into the horse deaths as violations of the California cruelty-to-animal laws. In the three-page letter to Jackie Lacey, L.A. district attorney, the animal-rights advocacy group cited historical data but nothing specific about the current deaths of horses&#8230; The Los Angeles district attorney\u2019s office assigned investigators [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":756594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,20,23,25],"tags":[27,28,30,35],"class_list":["post-756593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-justice","category-rights","category-welfare","tag-cruelty","tag-entertainment","tag-exploitation","tag-protection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=756593"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":756599,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756593\/revisions\/756599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/756594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=756593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=756593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=756593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}