Health Minister Johannes Rauch (Greens) – who is also responsible for animal welfare – has recommended at least thinking about banning taxis. The question arises whether the use of fiackers in a large city is still current.
“You have to think carefully, really for animal welfare reasons, whether you should expose a horse to this stress,” said the minister. He would welcome a debate about whether Vienna could do without Fiacre at all, he said. He argued that this discussion should be separated from the question of when the horses will be taken out of the draft. In Vienna, Fiaker is banned from heat from 35 degrees Celsius. The municipality aims to allow the teams to take a break from 30 degrees. However, there are disagreements between the federal government and Vienna over who could legally implement this.
“We welcome the courageous initiative of Federal Minister Johannes Rauch to ban horse-drawn carriages,” the animal protection organization Vier Paws said in a broadcast. Traditions kept on the backs of living beings simply have no place in the 21st century. Other cities have already done it. The former walls of the Fiaker industry and the lack of courage on the part of politicians would have prevented a ban so far. “We can only congratulate Federal Minister Rauch on his proposal,” it continues.
Source: Krone
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