An exhausted carriage horse collapsed on a busy Manhattan street during rush hour Wednesday, renewing calls to ban the practice.
Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty ImagesWho opposes the practice and why?
A major opponent is the group New Yorkers for Clean, Livable and Safe Streets, which claims the animals are mistreated and the industry is cruel. The group wants to ban horses-for-hire in the city. Animal rights activists also claim that using horses to transport people on the busy streets of Manhattan isA New Yorkers for Clean, Livable and Safe Streets rally calling for the end of horse carriages in the city on August 19, 2021.An exhausted and dehydrated horse laid down on a busy Manhattan avenue for more than an hour Wednesday.
He also became the subject of an FBI investigation after he took more than $100,000 in 2013 campaign contributions from NYCLASS near the time he endorsed a horse-and-carriage ban. An electric carriage car that the de Blasio administration planned to replace horse-drawn carriages with in Central Park.The horses are licensed and subject to inspection by New York City’s Health Department along with police, the Sanitation Department and the ASPCA.making it illegal for horse-drawn carriages to sell rides when temperatures hit 90 degrees or more. The animals are also not allowed to work more than nine hours a day.
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