After five dogs died during just one week of the 2017 Iditarod—a cruel and abusive race that’s killed more than 150 dogs since it began—PETA urged State Farm to stop sponsoring it and called on our supporters to help. After hearing from more than 95,000 PETA supporters, the insurance company confirmed to PETA that its one-year sponsorship had ended.
State Farm Ends Sponsorship of the Deadly Iditarod
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