page_title: Horse welfare
section_title: Horse-drawn carriages
hierarchical_section_title: Horse welfare / History / 21st century / Horse-drawn carriages
caption_attribution_description: English: A tanga in Saharanpur
context_page_description: Equine welfare helps describe the acceptable conditions of life and use for domesticated horses, in contrast to suffering produced by voluntary or involuntary actions of others, whether through physical abuse, mutilation, neglect, or other forms of ill treatment. Debates about the welfare and abuse of horses are recent. In the nineteenth century, when the sight of a horse dying while working was commonplace, the first wave of awareness was born with the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the publication of the novel Black Beauty in England. France followed suit with the creation of the French League for the Protection of the Horse and the passage of the Grammont Law in 1850. Similar concerns over animal welfare developed in the United States. The debate intensified and extended throughout North America and Europe over the next century, particularly regarding the use of the horse during war, the use of horses as working animals on city streets, sports training, horse slaughter, and conditions of horse breeding and keeping.
context_section_description: Numerous arguments broke out in 2013 and 2014 concerning the use of horse-drawn carriages in urban settings or on roads. In New York City, the mayor proposed a ban of horse-drawn carriages, symbols of the city for a century, in Central Park for protection reasons. However, an inquiry showed possible collusion with the real estate sector. Israel became the first country to completely ban horse-drawn carriage traffic on the roads and the streets of its cities in 2014, to fight mistreatment of horses and donkeys. The only exception is for tourist attractions. This action was accompanied by a peace march that brought together 4000 supporters of animal rights.
  The death of carriage horses devoted to tourist visits in the streets of Cartagena, Colombia, has been denounced as mistreatment, as has the stabling conditions of carriage horses in Mumbai, India.
caption: Horse-drawn carriage at Saharanpur, India.
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