{"id":30895,"date":"2021-04-14T07:45:42","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T22:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/14\/new-zealand-to-stop-exporting-livestock-by-sea"},"modified":"2021-04-14T07:45:42","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T22:45:42","slug":"new-zealand-to-stop-exporting-livestock-by-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30895","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand to stop exporting livestock by sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exports will be phased out over two years as government says decision will uphold country\u2019s \u2018high standards of animal welfare\u2019<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand will cease the export of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2021\/mar\/31\/how-nearly-3000-cattle-came-to-be-stranded-at-sea-for-three-months\">livestock by sea<\/a> following a transition period of up to two years, agriculture minister Damien O\u2019Connor has said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the heart of our decision is upholding New Zealand\u2019s reputation for high standards of animal welfare. We must stay ahead of the curve in a world where animal welfare is under increasing scrutiny,\u201d O\u2019Connor said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/14\/new-zealand-to-stop-exporting-livestock-by-sea\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exports will be phased out over two years as government says decision will uphold country\u2019s \u2018high standards of animal welfare\u2019New Zealand will cease the export of livestock by sea following a transition period of up to two years, agriculture minister D&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[265,41,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30896,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30895\/revisions\/30896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}