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Following communications from PETA, national wholesale food distributor Performance Food Group has stopped selling the Chaokoh brand across its more than 150 distribution channels. Performance Food Group joins over 33,000 companies that have rejected coconut products linked to monkey labor in Thailand. This action will help phase out the use of monkeys in this industry. PETA urges everyone to sign our action alerts targeted to Chaokoh and retailers still selling the brand in spite of its links to monkey labor.

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As revealed in a report posted just today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) cited Envigo’s Cumberland, Virginia, dog-breeding facility on March 18 for five more violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act, bringing the facility’s total to 70 violations since July 2021. This was a focused inspection—looking only at the issues discovered in the November 2021 inspection—and involved the examination of only 79 of the thousands of dogs on site. All five violations cited this month were repeat violations from November.

Medical records for dogs injured between November 18, 2021, and March 8, 2022, identified 59 dogs with injuries attributed to fights. Documented injuries include lacerations, bite wounds, bruised and damaged extremities, ear damage, and tail damage. Eight dogs were put down as a result.

“During inspection by APHIS officials,” the report notes, “an animal caretaker … entered the treatment room with a beagle with a severe ear wound. The left ear was covered with fresh blood and had multiple skin tears requiring skin staples for repair.” The inspectors found another beagle with “several scabbed wounds with yellow discharge,” whose condition staff had neither noted nor treated. Dogs were found with access only to wet, moldy food. At least 130 cages were found with gaps between their flooring and sides, and dogs’ toes had slipped into the gaps. Since November, eight dogs’ tails had been wounded—even fractured, with exposed bone—apparently by enclosure doors.

Notably, three of the four inspectors present on March 8 had not participated in recent inspections of the facility, and other staff from prior inspections were omitted from the latest team, raising questions as to whether the USDA—which has yet to confiscate any dogs at Envigo or suspend its license—is bending to pressure from the company.

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Below, please find a statement from PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman in response to the Iditarod’s decision to fine mushers thousands of dollars as a penalty for sheltering dogs from a dangerous windstorm:

Nothing makes it clearer that this death race must end than the fact that the Iditarod slapped mushers with a fine as punishment for acting to prevent dogs’ deaths or that its “winner” Brent Sass allowed his dogs’ eyes to freeze shut during a similar windstorm. PETA is calling for cruelty charges against any mushers who left their dogs out in the storm while they stayed warm and cozy inside. Cruelty is baked into this deadly race, and it’s time for it to stop.

PETA notes that chaos and cruelty abounded in this year’s Iditarod. Nearly 250 dogs were pulled from the race, two dogs went missing, a musher was apparently forced out of the race after dogs he used were found in poor condition, and dogs were attacked and one was killed during training before the race even began.

This year, Millennium Hotels and Resorts and Nutanix joined ExxonMobil—a former major sponsor that had paid the race $250,000 a year—as well as Jack Daniel’s, Coca-Cola, Wells Fargo, Alaska Airlines, and 14 other companies that have cut ties with the Iditarod. Only a few major corporate sponsors, such as Liberty Media subsidiary GCI, remain—and PETA recently bought stock in Liberty Broadband to push it to drop its sponsorship.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to use for entertainment”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information on PETA’s investigative newsgathering and reporting, please visit PETA.org or follow the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.

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