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From Animal Defenders of Westchester (ADOW)

We advocate on all animal protection and exploitation issues, including experimentation, factory farming, rodeos, breeders and traveling animal acts.

They free horses, don’t they?

March 17, 2014

Published in the NY Daily News

Tuckahoe, N.Y.: To justify the carriage-horse industry, Voicer Susan Carlo states that some horses are “bred” to work and are called “work horses.” This is a term invented by humans; “bred to work” is also a human-invented term, misused to cover many types of animal exploitation.

She also states that the horses dragging carriages “look relaxed and unafraid”; does she also see the whip in the driver’s hand and the cold metal plate forced into the horse’s mouth? I think the horse isn’t the only one with blinders on.
 
Kiley Blackman

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