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Jillian Michaels joined several supporters of a plan to retire horse-drawn carriages in NYC on the steps of the town’s city hall.

One of the coaches of The Biggest Loser was accompanied by members of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, New York City Council members and NYCLASS — a group that wants to replace the carriages with electric cars.

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Miley Cyrus has used the power of Twitter to gain support for an end to horse-drawn carriages.

The pop singing star sent a message out to her 11 million followers to sign a petition that would allow horses working in carriages in New York City to retire.

“NYC is just 761 signatures shy of 100,000 petition goal to #FreeTheHorsesNYC! Sign @NYCLASS petition at http://StopHorseAbuse.com,” she wrote.

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Pamela Anderson spends her Thanksgiving holidays with turkey like everyone else. She just doesn’t put it on her plate. The longtime vegetarian and former Baywatch actress revealed she enjoys going to a farm sanctuary and spending time with the birds who’ll never become someone’s dinner.

‘I go to the Gentle Barn and hang out with turkeys,” Anderson told NY Post’s Page Six. “I tickle them under the wings and I sit them on my lap, and I feed them pumpkin pie.”

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Angela Simmons, reality TV actress, niece of Russell Simmons and the daughter of Rev Run, is featured on a recent cover of Everything Girls Love magazine.

Inside, Simmons’ interview reveals her favorite charities, love for animals and the vegetarian secret that plays a major role in her physique.

“Lately I’ve been working with an organization called NYClass, to get the horses off the streets of New York,” Simmosn told EGL.  “The horses that ride us around on carriages are treated so horribly and horses have no business being in the city.”

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Chelsea Handler has written a letter to New York mayor Bloomberg asking that he back a plan by the group NYCLASS to take horse-drawn carriages off the city’s streets and replace them with eco-friendly electric hybrid cars.

Not only will these cars save horses from working in unfavorable weather conditions like snow, ice and rain, according to Chelsea, the vehicles last so long after a charge, they work better than her vibrator.

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“It’s devastating. You see them in the rain, you see them in the snow. You see them in traffic like a car. I wouldn’t go out in that weather. I wouldn’t walk around in it. But they have to. They’re animals. They’re not cars.”

—Lea Michele, during an interview with PETA on the conditions carriage horses work in in New York city. A group called NYCLASS agrees that horses who pull carriages aren’t cars. That’s why they’d like to replace them with real vehicles.

Photo: David Shankbone/Creative Commons

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Lea Michele PETA

Lea Michele is starring in her 2nd PETA ad that draws attention to horse-drawn carriages in New York city.

A group called NYCLASS is calling for the complete ban of horse-drawn carriages and instead replacing them with green replica electric-hybrid cars. Not only would this solve the odor problem that the horse stables give off (which some stories include filling up a school cafeteria with the funk and giving children rashes and other health problems from airborne manure particles), the cars are also able to keep pace with other vehicles on the street, reducing the chance for accidents. And finally, the horses will get rest.

“Imagine for a moment that you’re forced to do hard physical labor all day, seven days a week–whether it’s sweltering hot or freezing cold outside,” Lea says. “At the end of the day, instead of relaxing on an easy chair or sleeping in a comfortable bed, you are locked in a tiny closet all night long. That’s what it’s like for horses who are forced to pull carriages in New York City.”

“Don’t get taken for a ride. Please boycott horse-drawn carriages.”

A video of Michele with footage from horse stables can be seen below.

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