Stop Atlantic City from Bringing back Diving Horse Show

UPDATE

How We Won

Feb 16, 2012

After worldwide condemnation of a proposed horse diving act in Atlantic City, horse advocates are now celebrating the announcement that there will be no horse diving at Steel Pier this summer.

Jennifer, the woman who created the online campaign, says, "I knew we had a chance to stop Steel Pier from reopening the diving horse shows, but I didn't know in less than two weeks 50,000 people would sign the petition and get this shut down. Thanks to everybody who signed and shared the petition and kept contacting! We did it!!"

The Editorial Board of the Star-Ledger, New Jersey's largest newspaper, chimed in to say that "no one wants to buy bathtub hootch or dodge bullets from Al Capone on the Boardwalk today. The horse-diving act belongs in the same ash bin of history. We’re glad the owners of the Steel Pier came to the same conclusion."

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In this interview Mr. Catanosa says paraphrasing, that he does not see anything wrong with this, it's tradition and nobody shown him any proof that the animal are hurt in any way.

I want to ask Mr. Catanos "What kind of proof does a person need to make them realize this is wrong? Just because some people see nothing wrong with it and would pay money to see it, doesn't make it OK to do this. It being a tradition is also not an excuse. It used to be a tradition to enslave people, should we bring that back too, because some people may not see anything wrong with it? The absence of proof that the animal is suffering is not proof that the animal is not suffering. A compassionate person would, in the absence of proof either way, be prudent and may I say enlightened, to assume the animal, with the ability to feel pain and emotional stress (and we do KNOW that sentient beings feel all that) but without the ability to speak is probably suffering in silence.

Sign petition to stop this cruel and unnecessary freak show from being reintroduced. This sort of exploitation of animals has to place in a compassionate society! I really doubt that most people really enjoy watching such a cruel show.

Sign petition to stop this cruel and unnecessary freak show from being reintroduced. This sort of exploitation of animals has to place in a compassionate society! I really doubt that most people really enjoy watching such a cruel show.

http://www.change.org/petitions/stop-the-reopening-of-the-cruel-diving-horse-show#

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Tell Atlantic City that bringing back Horse diving (making Horses them jump of a 60 meter steel structure. A terrifying ordeal for a horse) is not in the best interest of Atlantic City. it's a cruel idea and of course, as with most crazy ideas like this, designed to RAISE REVENUES, the animals be damned. Call or write the mayor office and polity tell them what you think!
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