Irving-based Exxon cuts ties with cruel annual Iditarod dogsled race
Irving-based Exxon cuts ties with cruel annual Iditarod dogsled race This is the way you want to treat your husky.
@lilothehusky Instagram Irving-based ExxonMobil has pulled its support of the Iditarod, the notorious annual dogsled race in Alaska. According to a release, the company has cut ties and will no longer offer financial support for the event after 2021. ExxonMobil has sponsored the Iditarod since 1978, funding it to the tune of $250,000 per year for the last several years alone. Its decision to cut ties with the race follows appeals from nearly 100,000 PETA supporters, “Closed for Cruelty” PETA protests outside dozens of gas stations and ExxonMobil’s Irving headquarters, and a billboard and bus ads, among other efforts.
The world’s most famous sled-dog race, celebrated by Alaskans for half a century but long condemned by animal-rights activists as inhumane, is losing one of its biggest corporate sponsors.
The world’s most famous sled-dog race, celebrated by Alaskans for half a century but long condemned by animal-rights activists as inhumane, is losing one of its biggest corporate sponsors.
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Orlando, Fla. – Holding gigantic green balloons spelling out “VEGAN,” a group of PETA supporters will gather in the Milk District in celebration of its rebranding as the “ Almond Milk District ” for “Veganuary.” They’ll march from the cow mural on the side of T.G. Lee Dairy through the neighborhood in order to encourage everyone to go vegan for Veganuary and beyond.
When: Saturday, January 23, 3:30 p.m.
Where: 315 N. Bumby Ave. (near E. Robinson Street), Orlando “PETA is encouraging the ‘Almond Milk District’ to keep its animal-friendly new name permanently,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “A glass of almond milk is better for human health and the planet and prevents gentle cows from being treated as milk machines until their bodies give out.”