Carriage horse rally planned for Valentine's Day
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Carriage horse rally planned for Valentine's Day
February 12, 2011
Several New York-based groups are holding a joint demonstration on Valentine's Day to draw attention to the plight of carriage horses in the city.
As well as distributing educational flyers, the groups will be carrying Valentine-themed posters with messages such as: "Don't Break Cupid's Heart: Say NO to Carriage Rides" and "Give a Carriage Horse a Valentine: Freedom."
The effort is a joint initiative by Friends of Animals, the Coalition to Ban Horse-Drawn Carriages, and Heart for Animals, imploring the public to boycott "the abusive, dangerous and decidedly unromantic horse-drawn carriage industry on Valentine's Day".
Friends of Animals said the horse-drawn carriage trade exploited horses by forcing them to pull carriages in the chaotic, dangerous environment of New York City's midtown streets - where they continually inhale car and bus exhaust.
"Horses are shackled between the shafts of their carriage, their vision restricted by blinders - often working in extreme weather conditions with inadequate access to water or rest, day after day. Complaints to the City and ASPCA about these conditions go unheeded, despite the ASPCA's police powers," said Edita Birnkrant, NY Director of Friends of Animals.
"Eventually, horses are either too ill, injured, or worn out from such a punishing existence that they can no longer turn a profit for their owners - and are promptly shipped to 'killer buyer' auctions in Pennsylvania, whereby due to a loophole in the current existing NYC law, they can legally be sold to slaughterhouses in Canada and Mexico with no record or fanfare," she said.
Friends of Animals, the Coalition to Ban Horse-Drawn Carriages and Equine Advocates intervened in June of 2010 to rescue Bobby, a former carriage horse whose owners had sent him to a killer buyer auction - the last stop before the slaughterhouse. "Bobby is now residing at the Equine Advocates Sanctuary; Bobby's happy ending is the exception, not the rule," Birnkrant said.
Friends of Animals is urging support of Intro 86A, Council Member Melissa Mark Viverito's bill to replace horse-drawn carriages with eco-friendly antique touring cars, so that every horse is placed in a safe sanctuary once the industry is shut down.
February 12, 2011
Several New York-based groups are holding a joint demonstration on Valentine's Day to draw attention to the plight of carriage horses in the city.
The effort is a joint initiative by Friends of Animals, the Coalition to Ban Horse-Drawn Carriages, and Heart for Animals, imploring the public to boycott "the abusive, dangerous and decidedly unromantic horse-drawn carriage industry on Valentine's Day".
Friends of Animals said the horse-drawn carriage trade exploited horses by forcing them to pull carriages in the chaotic, dangerous environment of New York City's midtown streets - where they continually inhale car and bus exhaust.
"Horses are shackled between the shafts of their carriage, their vision restricted by blinders - often working in extreme weather conditions with inadequate access to water or rest, day after day. Complaints to the City and ASPCA about these conditions go unheeded, despite the ASPCA's police powers," said Edita Birnkrant, NY Director of Friends of Animals.
"Eventually, horses are either too ill, injured, or worn out from such a punishing existence that they can no longer turn a profit for their owners - and are promptly shipped to 'killer buyer' auctions in Pennsylvania, whereby due to a loophole in the current existing NYC law, they can legally be sold to slaughterhouses in Canada and Mexico with no record or fanfare," she said.
Friends of Animals, the Coalition to Ban Horse-Drawn Carriages and Equine Advocates intervened in June of 2010 to rescue Bobby, a former carriage horse whose owners had sent him to a killer buyer auction - the last stop before the slaughterhouse. "Bobby is now residing at the Equine Advocates Sanctuary; Bobby's happy ending is the exception, not the rule," Birnkrant said.
Friends of Animals is urging support of Intro 86A, Council Member Melissa Mark Viverito's bill to replace horse-drawn carriages with eco-friendly antique touring cars, so that every horse is placed in a safe sanctuary once the industry is shut down.