June 19th 2008
Alec Baldwin Offers To Lend A Hand In Ending Horse Cruelty
Filed under: animals, film-tv, movies — Michael Andre d'Estries @ 9:39 pm
Last night, Alec Baldwin hosted an event for PETA in NYC to address the cruelty of the horse-drawn carriage scene. Shown at the event was the new documentary Blinders, which provides a look at the “living hell” horses endure. From the article,
“Forced to spend their days breathing in exhaust fumes, walking on hard pavement, and risking their lives because of weather extremes and idiotic NYC drivers that somehow passed their driver’s tests, these horses are prevented from doing anything that is natural and important to them. Moss began to record the daily lives and living conditions of horses pulling carriages in and around Central Park after noticing the onslaught of recent injuries to horses in the carriage industry.”
Alec Baldwin insists he’s not interested in banning the trade, but he’d be willing to donate some good cash if the city would guarantee improved living conditions for the animals. “I don’t have a problem with the carriage trade. If they remove all the cars in Manhattan, and build a farm with an acre of land for each horse to graze, I will invest my own money. Passions run high in this issue… It’s loud and vulgar because they know they are wrong.”
That acre of land might be tough - but removing cars from Manhattan? No problem. Get that check ready, Alec.
Check out the official movie site for Blinders here.
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ban the industry. It is Cruel in NYC traffic. You can’t turn the clock back to a different century and do we want to regress to horse carriages as mode of transportation. The ASPCA was founded based on the inherent cruelty of the horse carriage industry. It was inhumane and unsanitary. We should progress to mass transit and environmental cars not horses. Really, release those poor horses from their suffering
Thank you Alec. Stop putting those horses in the streets!
Yep. Dont look at the other side of things. just take their word for it. The TRUTH is that PETA and d. Moss used this film as a propaganda peice. It is loaded with half-truths, misleading information, misrepresentaions, and outright lies! just like PETA to support such a peice of garbage. The horses are some of the most well taken care of in the country. A lot of $$$ is psent on these horses. The owners love and care for them. How could they not? This is ridiculus crap!
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