Letters & Editorials
Washington Post
December 22, 2007
Put This New York Tradition Out to Pasture
Regarding the Dec. 17 news story "Bill Could Halt New York Carriage Horses": Who, besides those profiting from their labor, believes that horses belong on the bustling streets and parkways of New York City? As a visitor to the city, I know that at the end of a day, I feel battered, out of breath and wrung out. And that's from sightseeing! I see these horses sucking up exhaust fumes, plodding on the scorching asphalt and hauling loads of tourists who, shall we say, would benefit more by walking. The "tradition" is archaic and cruel, and its time is done.
PHILIP TRIPP
Fort Erie, Ontario
Coalition To Ban
Horse-Drawn Carriages
A Committee of the Coalition For New York City Animals, Inc.
Contact:
The Coalition for
NYC Animals, Inc.
P.O. Box 20247
Park West Station
New York, NY 10025
e-mail
Coalition@banhdc.org
To honor
Bobby II Freedom
previously known as Billy
ID# 2873
rescued by the Coalition to
Ban Horse-Drawn Carriages and
Equine Advocates on June 25, 2010
from the New Holland auctions.
In memory of
Lilly Rose O'Reilly
previously known
as Dada ID# 2711
R.I.P.August, 2007