One of the most abusive and exploitative animal practices in Malta is the use of horse-drawn carriages. Tourists should be told not to use these carriages, and this is absolutely not a tradition, nor is it something that should be supported.
Tourists should absolutely stay away from this practice.
Last week, that fraud, Animal Rights Minister Alicia Bugeja Said, visited the horse-drawn carriages in Valletta to promote a legal notice issued in 2019 that forces horse-drawn carriage rides to stop during summer between the hours of 13:00 and 16:00. She made it look as though the practice is acceptable and that the carriage drivers are following the law.
This is yet more fraudulent and revolting behaviour by Labour politicians, and animal rights activists were quick to respond to the Minister’s propaganda with a video of their own showing that the carriage drivers are not following the law.
The horse-drawn carriage business is one of the most exploitative and abusive animal practices in Malta. Most of these horses live terrible lives and sleep in garages or small, dirty stables. Foreign rescue organisations are picking up the tab, having to rescue and export these horses from Malta when they grow old, so that they can live the final years of their lives with some dignity after spending a lifetime subjected to horrific and exploitative abuse.
This is one of the practices that should put us to shame, and it is disgraceful that a government minister who is supposedly meant to work for animal rights is normalising this practice as though it were acceptable and normal.
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