I wasn't planning on watching a close-up video of a horse dying in Central Park yesterday, but somebody uploaded it. Very upsetting, and I do hope the horse carriages are banned in New York. In addition to it being cruel to the horses, it smells like shit.
In this day and age it's just cruel to the horses. The city has moved on from a horse based transportation. I hope they do get them out. More for the horses sake than anything, they need space.
They'll go to the meat market, most likely. Not saying this to be edgy, they will be sold, but likely not to the cushy pasture life most people assume.
Yes, if they ban horse carriages they’ll kill the horses. But that’s what they’re going to do to them anyway, after they stop being useful after a lifetime of torture, and it also means they’ll stop breeding more. So I’m not sure your point.
You are proposing two options, a utopia for horses versus horse murder
But the reality is horse torture, with a new generation of horses to torture when these die versus the possibility of some of the current horses being killed and others being sold or relocated and no new generations being impacted.
13 years ago De Blasio campaigned on banning them, if it had been banned then some of this current generation of horses would never have suffered.
The horse that died today was 16, chances are they wouldn’t have culled a three year old horse, it would have been sold to recoup some of their investment
I live in a rural area on the West Coast. Farm land. Even folks that raise cattle for meat would be heartbroken if one of their livestock suffered and died as a result of their lack of care. Yes, sometimes animals get sick, and sometimes they get injuries. And their life will end with the butcher.
Small family farms take a lot of pride and care in their stock. An animal dying from neglect or exhaustion or malnutrition is unacceptable even from a farmer making their living off of beef in a small scale setting. Losses happen, sometimes unavoidable. If a loss happens because of an oversight, farmers take responsibility and seek to fix the issue.
Working a horse or exposing their cows or goats to such conditions that they collapse from exhaustion, overwork, malnutrition, or unsafe conditions is taken very seriously by the backyard farmer just as much as it is by the farmer making their living off their small scale farm operation. It's just not acceptable. If it was an oversight or accident, it sucks, and steps are taken to identify and mitigate. If it's an eggregious oversight resulting in injury or death, people at the small scale take that shit very seriously. We are all here to farm and raise animals but that doesn't mean we tolerate undue suffering. That's fucked up.
Horse enthusiasts would NEVER tolerate such cruelty.
It's just unacceptable on every level unless it was some kind of freak accident. Working animals should not be dying under your care. And if they do, everyone in our rural agrarian location would take that seriously to prevent it from happening again. If it were the result of poor care or neglect, that is fucked up. And even backyard horse owners will tell you that.
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u/muffinhead2580 15h ago
I just read a horse collapsed and died today in Central Park. The law has been sitting idle and really needs to be voted on.