Poor Horsies :/

BLINDERS, a documentary on the horse carriage industry on in New York and the inhumane conditions under which the horses work and live, provoked a large number of activists and animal lovers. He primarily targets the ASPCA and NY City Hall, " which he claims have failed repeatedly to act to stop a tradition that has no place in contemporary NY streets with bumper-to-bumper traffic and recurrent injuries that maim and kill the horses". Both the benefits to the city and the cruelty to the horses are considered and analyzed as this dispute goes about. Daugherty emphasizes the animal cruelty as she solely focuses on how the horses have to work hard in the rain, snow, sleet, everything. She does not support the opposition; when she does, she suggests their selfish and irrational excuses.