For Immediate Release:
June 5, 2023
Contact:
David Perle 202-483-7382
Englewood, Colo. – At Liberty Broadband’s and Formula One’s (F1) yearly conferences tomorrow early morning, a PETA staffer will hold executives’ feet to the fire over their rejection to sever ties with the Iditarod race, in which more than 150 dogs have actually passed away. Both Liberty Broadband and F1 belong to the Liberty family of business, which likewise consists of GCI, an Alaskan web service supplier that sponsors the Iditarod to the tune of more than $250,000 each year.
PETA will mention that this year’s race—which had the most affordable variety of mushers ever—ended in debate after the winner was captured on video dragging tired dogs to a checkpoint. More than a lots business have actually abandoned their Iditarod sponsorships after speaking with PETA and seeing documentation of the grossly inhumane conditions sustained by dogs throughout and in between races.
“Unlike F1 drivers, who choose to compete, dogs used in the Iditarod don’t choose to run 1,000 miles over snow and ice until their paws bleed,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA is calling on Liberty Broadband and F1 to cut ties with the Iditarod’s hideous cycle of torment and death.”
PETA—whose slogan checks out, in part, that “animals are not ours to use for entertainment” and which opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview—held “plead-ins” at Liberty CEO Greg Maffei’s looks at occasions in Beverly Hills, California; Miami; and New York and released sincere appeals for him to end his business’s assistance of the Iditarod.
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