A coalition of groups demanding access to ivermectin and other horse medications to treat certain ailments will be holding an action rally outside of New York’s City Hall on Tuesday, ABC 7 reports.
The purposely stupid headline and lede here are still technically true as the noon rally will be put on by advocacy groups including New Yorkers for Clean, Livable, and Safe Streets (NYCLASS) and PETA to call for an immediate halt to horse carriage rides after the owners refused a city-hired equine veterinarian to conduct basic health and welfare exams on the animals stabled in Central Park. The exams weren’t optional as city law now mandates access to the horses, so it wasn’t clear why the hell nobody got a court order and a sheriff’s deputy to allow the vet into the stables. Per ABC 7 the vet nonetheless noted signs of possible neglect of the beasts of tourist burden.
Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani has previously indicated support for both a ban on the carriages as well as authorizing a study on what ABC 7 says is a “decades-old industry,” which is an interesting way of describing a horse-powered transport. Think it might be a little older than a few decades.