Actor joins fight to ban horse-drawn carriages from New York
AMERICAN actor Alec Baldwin has shown his support for the charity PETA’s (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) campaign to ban horse-drawn carriages in New York.
The actor hosted a special screening of a documentary called Blinders which details the life of the carriage horses in the city last night (19 June).
PETA claims the work is dangerous and unhealthy with horses involved in road accidents and subjected to road fumes and they say horses are kept in poor conditions.
A bill to ban the carriages from New York is being considered by Congress.
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A self-confessed newshound, farmer’s daughter and journalist of many years' experience, Charlotte worked on regional papers before joining H&H in 2007. A regular rider, she visited Ireland in 2010 to investigate the fate of Irish horses through the recession, to much acclaim, and reported from the FEI General Assembly in Rio de Janeiro in 2011. She left Horse & Hound in March 2013.