For immediate release:
February 11, 2022
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David Perle 202-483-7382
Anchorage, Alaska – To mark 50order commemorating Iditarod, PETA is plastering the area buses with message indicates that the leading cause of death for dogs on the Iditarod trail is aspiration pneumonia – the result of inhaling their own vomit – and is calling for an end to the race. The ads displayed a skinny, frozen dog chained in the property owned by Iditarod musher Mitch Seavey.
PETA’s secret investigation entering the “kennels” showed that joints, disabled and injured dogs were denied veterinary care; Chained dogs with worn-out paw pads, rough and bloody from madness running in tight circles around plastic crates that were their only “shelter” in the freezing cold cold; and dogs were dragged and injured, even killed during training.
PETA executive vice president Tracy Reiman said: “It is unconscionable that in this day and age, Iditarod is still literally driving dogs to the ground. “No prize is worth a dog’s life, and PETA is showing that the best way to mark five decades of this shameful spectacle is to put it in the history books.”
More than 150 dogs have died in Iditarod since it began. Many others were killed during off-season because they weren’t fast enough or healthy enough to level up. As many as half of the dogs that start the race don’t finish it, and in the 2021 race, nearly 200 dogs have been pulled off the trail because of exhaustion, illness, injury or other causes, causing The rest have to work harder. .
After PETA campaigns, Millennium Hotels and Resorts dropped support for Iditarod just this week, following the lead of Jack Daniel’s, Coca-Cola, Wells Fargo and Alaska Airlines. ExxonMobilformerly a major Iditarod sponsor giving $250,000 a year, confirming that 2021 is the last year they will support the race. Handmade sportswear, Family Care Medical Park, Artisan Tourismand Anchorage distillery also severed ties.
PETA — in part, their motto that “animals are not ours for amusement” — advocates for speciesism, a human worldview – supremacy. For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow the group on Twitter, Facebookor Instagram.
