It's difficult not to recognize the horses' suffering. Exploited for greed and entertainment, the NYC carriage horse is an icon of misery. These dispirited horses travel up to 4 miles a day in heavy traffic, suffer concussive injuries and lameness from pounding the pavement, and don't get enough water.
New York City carriage horses also must share their feed with starving pigeons. This contaminates the feed and puts horses at risk for illness.
It's not an anomaly, it's the norm. The carriage drivers don't discourage it. In fact, they often throw feed on the filthy ground.
Picture it: New York City carriage horses stand around
in excessive heat and cold waiting for fares. The horses are watered inadequately and eat feed that is tainted with pigeon droppings.
Miserable, right? It's bad for the horses and it endangers the lives of the pigeons, who frequently fall victim to the wheels of the carriage.
This happened during our September demo & outreach event. The poor hungry birds are there one minute, gone the next. As always, one of our activists took the pigeon's body into the park, out of respect.A ban critic recently said that the horses are happy and the pigeons are, too. I recommend that everyone wake up and take a good look around the hack line--and don't forget to look down.
The ban will make New York City a better place.
Side note: Pigeons are wonderful creatures. An August 2014 Epoch Times cover story ("New York Too Busy to Care? Center Rescues City's Injured Birds") warned against bird bigotry and gave us a history lesson on the heroic birds. The reporter wrapped it up by saying, "By the time I had done an elementary Google search, I was ready to get down on the ground and salute them."
3 comments:
this is a joke, right?
I allowed this moronic comment "this is a joke, right?" to show the ignorance and inhumanity of the drivers and their troll friends, which we experience all the time.
To the "anonymous" person who is afraid to use his/her real name. It is not a joke. But then you would not know that because your morality level is that of a caveman.
These people think it is OK to throw grains on the filthy ground for their "beloved" horses -- or to allow pigeon feces to get into the horse's feed.
And as for killing numerous pigeons with their carriage wheels - well that is just par for the course.
Yes these horses are Icons - Icons of Misery!
So thank you "anonymous" for proving my point.
Thank you for writing this. The callousness of the New York City carriage drivers is matched only by their stupidity. Why else would the carriage drivers allow the horses to eat tainted food? And obviously it's cruel to both the horses and the pigeons.
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