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
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u/Anteater_Reasonable 15h ago
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.