Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the leader of the New York City council have agreed to ban horse-drawn carriages from the city, a popular tourist attraction that has faced widespread scrutiny.
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Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the leader of the New York City council have agreed to ban horse-drawn carriages from the city, a popular tourist attraction that has faced widespread scrutiny.
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I don’t find them inherently bad, and much of the reasoning I hear could apply to horse ownership in general, but the cost and effort of regulation is probably not worth it.
Something a bit more city life specific: an average horse produces some 40 pounds of poop per day. That’s why most of those carriages have large poop bags behind every horse. Also why they tend to smell like shit.
Also, have you ever seen a horse just stop in the middle of the street and take a piss? They just stop and do it. And there’s like a ten foot splash zone, not to mention the smell and the resulting (large) puddle.
I don’t know, I think forcing horses to work on hard concrete while being surrounded by loud vehicles all day isn’t really an issue shared with horse ownership in general.