A few days after a carriage horse named Charlie collapsed and died in the streets of midtown Manhattan, the Mayor of New York City, Michael R. Bloomberg dismissed calls for a ban on the carriage-horse industry.">
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A few days after a carriage horse named Charlie collapsed and died in the streets of midtown Manhattan, the Mayor of New York City, Michael R. Bloomberg dismissed calls for a ban on the carriage-horse industry, saying he could not imagine why “anybody wants to destroy something that is part of New York’s heritage and that tourists love.”
“Most of them [the horses] probably wouldn’t be alive if they didn’t have a job,” said Mayor Bloomberg.
Edita Birnkrant, New York director of Friends of Animals, told the Wall Street Journal that the use of horse-drawn carriages in a bustling metropolis like New York constitutes animal abuse. As for Mr. Bloomberg’s contention that the carriage horses would be dead without work, Ms. Birnkrant said: “The mayor needs to wake up—the horses are ending up dead.”
Animal Rights Groups are planning to hold a candlelight vigil for Charlie on Friday, October 28, 2011 from 7 to 8:30 p.m at the northwest corner of Central Park South (59th Street and Fifth Avenue).
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Carriage horses lead a hard life. It is cruel.
Isn’t it better not to exist in the first place, than to have one’s existence based on his or her suffering?
Stop with the PETA koolaid! I am guessing you know nothing about horses or animals with a statement such as that. Learn something.