{"id":1331059,"date":"2023-11-15T00:45:21","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T00:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=0e4682bf1a4dd6968b3d1cd8e64ccc9b"},"modified":"2023-11-15T00:45:21","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T00:45:21","slug":"breaking-peta-supporter-arrested-on-his-knees-at-local-netflix-event-over-f1-ties-to-deadly-dog-sled-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/11\/15\/breaking-peta-supporter-arrested-on-his-knees-at-local-netflix-event-over-f1-ties-to-deadly-dog-sled-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: PETA Supporter Arrested on His Knees at Local Netflix Event Over F1 Ties to Deadly Dog-Sled Race"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Viewers and attendees of the Netflix Cup golf event\u2014a first-of-its-kind livestreamed sporting event that pitted Formula 1 drivers against PGA players at the Wynn Golf Club\u2014were met with a surprise this evening when PETA supporters crashed the scene on their knees and issued a heartfelt appeal to executives of F1 and its parent company, Liberty Media\u2014including Liberty President and CEO Greg Maffei\u2014to end Liberty\u2019s support of the deadly Iditarod<\/a>. One supporter was detained after the group drove home the message that more than 150 dogs have died during the grueling 1,000-mile dog-sled race in Alaska. Video footage and photos of the \u201cplead-in\u201d during the livestream\u2014which follows similar actions at events in Beverly Hills, California; Miami; New York City; and San Francisco\u2014are available here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Alaska Airlines, Chrysler, Coca-Cola, Jack Daniel\u2019s, Wells Fargo, ExxonMobil, and many other companies have cut ties with the Iditarod after learning from PETA how dogs suffer and die because of the race, but Liberty Media subsidiary GCI, an internet service provider, is still sponsoring the notorious event to the tune of more than $250,000 every year.<\/p>\n

\u201cLiberty Media is still in bed with a disgraceful race in which dogs are forced to run until their paws bleed and their bodies give out, with 150 dogs dead and counting,\u201d says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. \u201cPETA is pleading with the top brass to stop propping up this despicably cruel dog-sled race right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Up to half the dogs who start the Iditarod don\u2019t finish it. During this year\u2019s race\u2014which had the smallest field of mushers in the event\u2019s history\u2014approximately 175 dogs were pulled off the trail due to exhaustion, illness, injury, or other causes, leaving the remaining ones to work even harder. The race ended in controversy after the winner was caught on video<\/a> dragging exhausted dogs toward a checkpoint.<\/p>\n

The leading cause of death for dogs in the Iditarod is aspiration pneumonia\u2014caused by inhaling their own vomit\u2014and the race\u2019s official death toll doesn\u2019t include countless others who were killed simply because they weren\u2019t fast enough or who died during the off-season while chained next to dilapidated boxes or plastic barrels in the bitter cold, a practice exposed in a PETA undercover investigation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

PETA\u2014which owns stock in Formula 1\u2014opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview, and its motto reads, in part, that \u201canimals are not ours to use for entertainment.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more information on PETA\u2019s investigative newsgathering and reporting, please visit PETA.org<\/strong><\/a>, listen to The PETA Podcast<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, or follow the group on X (formerly Twitter)<\/strong><\/a>, Facebook<\/strong><\/a>, or Instagram<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Viewers and attendees of the Netflix Cup golf event\u2014a first-of-its-kind livestreamed sporting event that pitted Formula 1 drivers against PGA players at the Wynn Golf Club\u2014were met with a surprise this evening when PETA supporters crashed the scene on their knees and issued a heartfelt appeal to executives of F1 and its parent company, Liberty… Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n

The post Breaking: PETA Supporter Arrested on His Knees at Local Netflix Event Over F1 Ties to Deadly Dog-Sled Race<\/a> appeared first on PETA<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2304,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331059"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2304"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1331059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1331121,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331059\/revisions\/1331121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1331059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1331059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1331059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}