Horse Recorded Collapsing in New York Dies - We Must Ban Carriages!

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Ryder, the horse filmed collapsing on the streets of New York city back in August has sadly passed away, fueling continued calls for a ban on carriages. Ryder's carriage operator, Ian McKeever is currently being investigated for lying on veterinary records about Ryder's age, documenting him as 13 when he was in fact 26 years old. This comes after his brother was charged in relation to the falsified records. The McKeever's planned to work Ryder to death, a feat they unfortunately achieved. This is why we must act and ban horse carriages before another horse dies from being over worked.

This story shines a negative light on the feverishly defended carriage industry and exposes how easy it must be to manipulate records allowing the horses to continue to work long after they should be. In fact, by reducing Ryder's age to 13, they planned to utilize the horse for an additional 10+years as the mandatory retiring age for carriage horses is 27 years old in new York. Poor Ryder was almost retired after giving his forced service to the carriage industry for so many years only to be let down by the industry and forced to work to literal death.

This story is infuriating and incredibly saddening but it's nothing new. Horses have been documented falling from cliffs, dropping in the streets, colliding with traffic...none of this is new. The carriage industry continues to vehemently defend their treatment of horses but refuse to acknowledge that the conditions in which they are working are not acceptable in today's times. There weren't millions of vehicle son the road, pumping out pollution when carriage horses originally took to the streets. There wasn't alarming amounts of pollution in busy cities like there is now. The conditions for working horses have changed so much but the industry has not evolved with the times. This is why it's imperative to ban horse-carriages and retire the remaining horses. Should another innocent horse drop to the ground before we start to care about their well-being?

Intro 573 is being introduced to tackle the carriage industry. The bill would effectively ban any new licenses from being issues and would transition horse-carriages to electric carriages by June, 2024. Carriage operators would be the first in line to receive the new electric carriage licenses, giving them an opportunity to shift in to a cruelty free industry. There is no longer a place for horse carriages on our busy, polluted streets. We have to stop looking at how we're "treating" the horses behind the scenes and accept that we're putting them in harms way on a daily basis. These animals have served humanity for centuries, and to be using them now for novelty rides and watching them drop to the ground from exhaustion is sickening. 

It's time to ban horse-carriages in New York City. We must pass Intro 573 and retire these horses before another one sees its life cut short at the hands of this abusive industry.
RIP Ryder.

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