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PETA Statement: Lame Dog Forced to Run Iditarod
Below, please find a statement from PETA Vice President Colleen O’Brien in response to video footage from the Rainy Pass checkpoint showing an apparently limping dog who was forced to pull Martin Buser’s sled:
From the looks of it, Martin Buser put an injured dog back in the harness—and the Iditarod, which calls some dog deaths an “unpreventable hazard,” didn’t stop him. PETA wants this dog removed from the race before its death toll of 150-plus dogs climbs any higher.
PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to use for entertainment”—opposes speciesism, which is a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org.
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‘Buono!’ 13 Vegan Meatball Recipes for National Meatball Day
National Meatball Day is March 9, so we’ve compiled these vegan meatball recipes that are sure to satisfy your taste buds. Whether you’re looking for a meal that you can throw together quickly or something made from scratch, there’s something for everyone. You can now find tons of delicious vegan meatball brands at your local grocery stores, but they can also be made at home with ingredients such as beans, tempeh, textured vegetable protein, or veggies—the culinary options are vast. However you make them, choosing vegan meatballs helps prevent cows, pigs, chickens, and turkeys from being raised and killed for food.
Crockpot Italian Meatless Meatballs
This easy weeknight meal is made with store-bought vegan meatballs, so all you have to do is throw everything into your slow cooker.
Meatless Meatball Subs Using Ingredients From Trader Joe’s
Next time you take a trip to Trader Joe’s, pick up these four ingredients to make easy, mouthwatering meatball subs.
Vegan Albóndigas (Meatball) Soup
This traditional Mexican meatball soup has a flavorful tomato-based broth and tons of healthy veggies.
Spaghetti and Marinara With Vegan Meatballs
Whipping up your marinara sauce from scratch is easy and makes this classic dish even more comforting.
Vegan Swedish Meatballs
Tempeh gives this dish a “meaty” flavor, while full-fat coconut milk makes for a rich, creamy sauce. Serve these meatballs with steamed veggies and eggless egg noodles or dairy-free mashed potatoes.
Vegan Meatballs With a Sweet & Sour Cranberry Sauce
Cocktail meatballs make a great appetizer for the holidays, but there’s no rule that says you can’t eat them year-round.
Copycat IKEA Veggie Balls
If you don’t want to make the trip to IKEA but are craving its Swedish veggie balls, this copycat recipe is a great option.
Vegan Meatball Banh Mi
Vietnamese meatballs, or bún chả, are typically made with pig flesh and fish sauce, but this veggie version is made with cannellini beans and flavored with hoisin sauce.
Vegan Meatball Pizza Pinwheels
Pizza pinwheels, which make a fun meal for kids, are super-easy to throw together.
Thai Chickpea Meatballs & Coconut Curry Bowls
These chickpea-based meatballs are flavored with Thai yellow curry paste and drenched in a rich sauce.
Vegan Meatball Platter
Eggplant-chickpea meatballs are used for this platter, which also features a spicy tomato relish, creamy tahini sauce, and fried pita bread.
Vegan Meatball Mozzarella Hot Pockets
Recreate a childhood classic, vegan-style. These hot pockets use Gardein meatballs, but you can use any brand or make your own from scratch.
Vegan Meatball Parm Soup
This comforting dish has a tomato soup base topped with vegan meatballs and melty dairy-free mozzarella. It’s best served in a crusty bread bowl.
These recipes are just the beginning—start your journey to going vegan by trying our three-week vegan meal plan. Order a free vegan starter kit and learn how you can save nearly 200 animals every year:
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Coots Gunned Down, Left to Drown at California Golf Club!
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Even an Iditarod Champion Admitted It: Dog-Sled Racing Is Inhumane
There’s no way to justify forcing dogs to haul a heavy sled across icy terrain in subzero temperatures for up to 100 miles a day in the Iditarod race. Even four-time Iditarod champion Susan Butcher couldn’t defend it.
At a dog-sled racing conference, she made this eyebrow-raising confession: “There’s a lot of bad stuff going on in dog mushing. We wouldn’t, as a group, pass anybody’s idea of humane treatment of animals. As a group, we don’t pass my standards of humane treatment of animals” [emphasis added].
Butcher was right: An event that causes dogs to sustain strained muscles and stress fractures as well as suffer from bloody stomach ulcers, dehydration, intestinal viruses, severe exhaustion, and aspirational pneumonia can never be considered humane.
Dogs used in the Iditarod are subjected to cruelty on and off the trails. When they aren’t being forced to run the approximately 1,000-mile race through Alaska’s unforgiving landscape, dogs are chained outside 24/7 in the bitter cold. A PETA undercover investigation into kennels operated by former Iditarod winners exposed that workers struck dogs in the face, tore scabs and tissue off a dog’s infected wounds, and routinely gave animals inadequate, moldy food.
Butcher could speak firsthand to the deadly consequences of the Iditarod: Four of the dogs she forced to run died during the grueling race. The Iditarod has killed more than 150 dogs since its inception, and countless others die during the off-season. Aspiration pneumonia (caused by inhaling vomit), heart attacks, excessive fluid in the lungs, being struck by a car or snowmobile, and being buried in the snow are just some of the ways dogs’ lives have been painfully snuffed out.
Nearly 30 years after Butcher urged mushers to “clean up [their] act,” the Iditarod is still hell for dogs. In the 2020 race, more than 220 dogs were pulled off the trail because of exhaustion, illness, injury, and other causes, forcing the rest to work even harder. Musher Nicolas Petit forced his team to keep running, even though the dogs were reportedly vomiting, several had frostbite, and one likely needed stitches. Another musher, Mitch Seavey, reportedly threw a dog down and pinned her muzzle to the ground while on the race’s livestream. This doesn’t look like a “clean act” to us—it looks like the same abuse that Butcher spoke about decades ago.
Exhausted dogs were run for dozens or hundreds of miles to train for the Iditarod and to give tours to tourists. One dog with an injured paw who was forced to run repeatedly “gave up” and was dragged.
After years of pressure from PETA, more than a dozen companies—including ExxonMobil, Chrysler, Coca-Cola, and Alaska Airlines—have stopped sponsoring the Iditarod. Help PETA end this deadly race by urging other companies, including Donlin Gold and Millennium Hotels and Resorts, to cut ties with it.
Urge Millennium Hotels and Resorts to Stop Sponsoring the Iditarod
Urge Donlin Gold to Cut Ties With the Iditarod
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