Well the folks(freaks) at PETA have pulled another wild stunt.


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PETA asks town to change its name

By Associated Press, 4/22/2003 10:34


HAMBURG, N.Y. (AP) A national animal rights group has offered Hamburg officials $15,000 to change the town's name to Veggieburg.

''The town's name conjures up visions of unhealthy patties of ground-up dead cows,'' said Joe Haptas, spokesman of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), in a letter faxed Monday to Hamburg Supervisor Patrick Hoak.

PETA offered to supply area schools with $15,000 worth of non-meat patties for the name change.

''Our offer is serious as a heart attack,'' Haptas said.

Hoak immediately declined.

''With all due respect, I think it's a delicacy in our community,'' he said about hamburgers. ''We're proud of our name and proud of our heritage.''

The Buffalo suburb, named Hamburg since 1812, claims to be the birth place of the American culinary staple. Hamburg commemorates the birth of hamburgers at the annual Burgerfest.

In 1996, PETA proposed that the Hudson Valley town of Fishkill change its centuries-old name to Fishsave, since the group believed the name conjured up violent imagery of dead fish.

The town was named by Dutch settlers in the early 1600s. ''Kill'' is the Dutch word for ''stream.''


http://www.boston.com/dailynews/112/region/PETA_asks_town_to_change_its_n:.shtml


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My mother called me about this today because she lives close to Fishkill and it was in her local paper. There is also another (very small town) close to Fishkill called New Hamburg. I guess PETA will probably want to change that name too.




Cat

How do ya think PETA would feel about Flesh Eating Children?  

Sorry conservationalists, your spokespeople are wacko's!
Not even the NRA are as nutball as PETA people.

What will they think of next?  AND...only $15000?  It would cost more than that just to change the letterhead, signs, etc ;D

Last week in my city, 3 days before Easter, PETA put up a giant billboard across the street from 2 large churches with a picture of a pig and the caption:  "He died for your sins".  Needless to say, there were a lot of people who were greatly offended at its content as well as the timing and location.  One of the classic rock stations parked their station van under the sign and gave away Johnsonville PORK brats.  I thought it was one of the most awesome radio promotions I have seen in a long time.

::).  Enough said!