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December 12, 2023
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David Perle 202-483-7382
Cantwell, Alaska – Under, please discover a assertion from PETA Govt Vice President Tracy Reiman in response to stories that a minimum of two canine belonging to the kennel of infamous Iditarod musher Jim Lanier had been killed and others had been injured final night time when a snow machine struck them throughout coaching:
Even when the Iditarod is over, the canine’ distress by no means ends. No less than 4 canine from the kennels of Jim Lanier and Dallas Seavey have been killed by snow machines prior to now month, and lots of canine who survive this 12 months’s coaching season might be compelled to tug glory-seeking mushers almost 1,000 miles till their our bodies break down. PETA is asking on GCI and its proprietor, Liberty Media, to chop ties with the Iditarod earlier than its loss of life toll, each on and off the path, rises any increased.
Lanier was initially banned from the 2020 Iditarod over considerations for his well being and skill to look after canine throughout the race. He ended up competing anyway however needed to withdraw. Since then, different mushers have raced canine from his kennel, together with Hugh Neff, who notoriously needed to stop the 2022 Iditarod after the canine he was forcing to race—who had been described as “skinny” and had been apparently affected by diarrhea—had been reportedly present in such poor situation that they couldn’t proceed.
PETA—whose motto reads, partially, that “animals should not ours to make use of for leisure”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For extra details about PETA’s investigative newsgathering and reporting, please go to PETA.org, hearken to The PETA Podcast, or comply with the group on X (previously Twitter), Fb, or Instagram.
