NYC carriage horses working in brutal storm.

Click here to read Elizabeth Forel's excellent article in The Dodo.

I love the picture of Monty, Rocco and Teddy romping in the snow, with their adorable blankets. They are so cute, happy and handsome! Scroll down a little to see some pictures of them.

Please Sign the Petition to Get Carriage Horses off the Cruel, Crowded Streets of New York City

 This link is a quote from the post:

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.

Brainwashed by the Media when it comes to NYC carriage horses?

An article by Elizabeth Forel, regarding the media's railroading of the carriage horse ban.

"This is about power and influence – not about horses, drivers, animal activists or real estate tycoons." 

I just finished reading this excellent article, about the media's bias. It seems that the NYC papers are not telling the truth about carriage horses and drivers. 

I'm not surprised by this. It's the same thing the media does when the subject of unpasteurized ("raw"?) milk comes up.

The local media in NYC is trying to portray the drivers and the carriages as a picturesque, heartwarming "return to the days of yesteryear."

No wonder, since that is the exact stereotype people are thinking of when they ride on a horse-driven carriage through Central Park.

The media bias regarding horse-drawn carriages, though, exploits this alleged "return to the past" as romantic and desirable. 

But, when it comes to the subject of unpasteurized milk, the media bias portray the alleged "return to the past" as dirty, diseased, unhygienic, pre-Enlightenment primitivism --- somehow related to the Black Death, or Bubonic Plague.

(The irony, of course, is that the two "pasts" are the exact same time: ---  Nineteenth to early Twentieth Centuries.)

Please look at the photos in this article ---- if your heart can take it --- and see for yourself how heartwarming and picturesque the carriage trade is in New York City.

There is a link to this article, also, in the Forel article. This author, Vickery Eckhoff, has a blog. She has been studying horse slaughter in the U.S., and is against it. Thanks Heavens!