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PETA Goes After NYC Carriages

Animal-rights activist calls the trade 'disgusting'

By Clay Dillow, Newser Staff

Posted Mar 19, 2008 3:33 PM CDT

(Newser) – Animal-rights activists have long been champing at the bit to ban horse-drawn carriages in New York City, and a PETA publicity strongman is in town to do just that, New York magazine reports. Though Michael Bloomberg and others in City Hall support the trade, PETA's... Read full story »

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