“Baywatch” icon Pamela Anderson has invited City Council Speaker and mayoral hopeful Christine Quinn to be her date to an upcoming gala. Busty blonde Anderson has been urging her fans to back a campaign banning horse-drawn carriages in New York after two horses died late last year.

Although horse slaughter is illegal in the USA, we routinely ship horses overseas to be slaughtered and sold as meat. Here are three major reasons why this needs to stop:

We’re sorry, remind us why cars were invented again? Oh yeah, because horse-drawn carriages suck. Sure, they’re “romantic” and “nostalgic” and “good for sight-seeing.” But they’re also smelly and slow and God are they gimmicky and overpriced.

Adrien Brody has written a letter on behalf of PETA, to New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn calling for her support of Intro. 86A, a City Council bill that looks to replace the horse-drawn carriages that line Central Park with vintage-style, eco-friendly cars.

Lea and Pam would be proud!

Jane Velez-Mitchell reports: There is a battle brewing over horse-drawn carriages in New York City, and whether horses should be on the road with the busy city traffic.

Although animal-welfare activists have been calling for an end to New York City’s horse-drawn carriages for years, recent events have given new vigor to the movement.

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Oreo, the runaway horse who dumped his carriage driver and two passengers near Columbus Circle on Thursday, may have bolted his way into an easier lifestyle.

In the wake of yesterday's runaway carriage horse incident in Columbus Circle, state Sen. Tony Avella and Assemblymember Linda Rosenthal are renewing calls to ban horse-drawn carriages.