I am calling on NYC to ban the cruel, inhumane and unsafe carriage horse industry. It is time to retire the horses to sanctuaries. Horses do not belong in a congested, urban setting where they constantly breathe exhaust while dodging dangerous traffic. The horses live their lives confined to the shafts of their carriage and the shafts of their stable stalls, with no access to green pastures.
Another quote from the post ---- An eloquent plea for compassion. (I don't want to create the mistaken impression that I wrote this myself. I do agree with it, though.):
Nine hours a day, seven days a week, they're pushed into Midtown traffic, forced to pull a carriage full of tourists just inches from noxious car tailpipe fumes, honking taxis and ambulance sirens. They only narrowly avoid collisions with cars, trucks, bikers and people every day, often working until 3 AM under the brash lights and drunken crowds of Times Square. And at the end of their shift, there's no green acres for them to roll and run -- it's right back to the stables and back onto the streets again. That's a plight we wouldn't wish on any person or animal.
From reading elsewhere on this website (blog?), I have also learned that there ARE homes for every one of the carriage horses in NYC right now.
AND --- no horses will be slaughtered for meat.
Apparently those are two arguments that carriage horse proponents try to use as excuses for opposing the ban on carriage horses.
I can hardly wait for that ban to start up.
No comments:
Post a Comment