PETA Has Officially Lost Its Mind

[circusgirl]

PETA urges Hamburg, N.Y. to change name

April 22, 2003 | 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, or 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.salon.com/news/wire/2003/04/22/peta_town/index.html

Shit here I was thiunking hambugers were named after the German City. mmmmmmm big....thick....juicy.....burgers........m.mmmmmmmmm I'm hungry.........

 

[ariolanine]

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Shit here I was thiunking hambugers were named after the German City. mmmmmmm big....thick....juicy.....burgers........m.mmmmmmmmm I'm hungry.........

What did you do during the foot and mouth outbreak a few years ago?

 

[circusgirl]

boy, it is worse for you leftists than i had originally thought.

you have the failed and defrocked ex-soviet leader running an organization (the green cross) to disarm the US in a time of war.

you have NOW saying scott peterson should have a murder charge dropped for killing an 8+ month old fetus.

and now PETA is demanding a historic town change it's name, because it reminds them of a type of food....

talk about priorities, huh?

the green cross is something different over here.

The "green cross code" is a lil ditty you learn as a kid that teaches you to cross to road safely.

Y'know Poink, there are a lot of different types of liberals out there. Not every conservative is Pat Buchanan either. I feel no need to defend any of these folks as I have nothing in common with them.

Now, about that double cheeseburger without the bun.....

 

[theoak01]

they were in bc bitching about how kfc kills its fucking chickens,who cares for fuck sakes we will eat them one way or another

 

[Frackal]

Well I think there should be 'humane methods of killing'...no need to throw the poor chickens in a wood chipper

 

[theoak01]

yes but they dont agree with chopping their heads off,its quick and painless

 

[Fast Twitch Fiber]

I really hate these morons. I work with two of these card carrying PETA members. They are always talking about how I"m going to have a heart attack for eating meat but they are both fat asses! I still don't see how a vegan can get fat.

 

[Baoh]

Fucking Hell! There should be allowances towards cannibalism in the US.

As for the questions regarding vegans and vegetarians getting fat- diets composed primarily of carbs.

 

[ariolanine]

I still don't see how a vegan can get fat.

No protein = no muscle mass = low BMR

add to that an all carb diet and you get fat. all the vegans I know are chunky or flabby.

 

[circusgirl]

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What did you do during the foot and mouth outbreak a few years ago?

there was still plenty of beef around. Funny, I didn't think of that, oddly enough there was no shortage.

Chicken don't get foot and mouth....