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.
—Okay, they’re good-naturedly ribbing themselves, right? They’re not actually serious—right?
With PETA, it’s hard to tell. In my opinion, they don’t seem to have much of a sense of humor AT ALL, and they’re willing to do just about anything to get their point across. Remember, this is the same organization that harrassed children with slaughterhouse pictures at an Oscar Meyer festival.
A couple of years ago they tried to get the town of Fishkill to change its name to “Fishsave.” They left places like Catskill and Normanskill alone for some reason. Why do they always pick on New York?
As an aside, there’s a sign on a bridge on Rte. 9 that says “Normanskill Creek.” Cracks me up every time I see it.
Does PETA even realize that they’ve become a laughingstock that no one takes seriously? It seems that most people would agree with their core goal - to reduce or eliminate animal suffering - but their continued idiotic antics are driving people away. Even people that might support them if they weren’t so asinine.
I mean, does changing Hamburg’s name to Veggieburg actually accomplish anything? Wouldn’t that $15k be better spent elsewhere? Like, say, adopting or supporting homeless animals.
Just on the off chance people don’t know this, New York was originally a Dutch colony, so the state is FILLED with cities, towns, lakes, streams, mountains, etc., with Dutch names.
“Kill” is the Dutch word for a creek or a stream. So, the name “Fishkill” has NOTHING to do with murdering guppies! A “fishkill,” in Dutch, is simply a stream that’s filled with fish.
It’s not even $15,000 in cash. It’s fifteen K in “non-meat patties” (there’s a jingle there…“two non-meat patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese…”)
Are they serious? Their spokesman said yesterday that “they’re serious as a heart attack,” so we have to assume that they are. I mean, they can’t even come up with a good dumb joke… The Hamburg commissioners should have agreed to do it on the grounds that PETA change its own name to People Eating Tasty Animals.
I hear there are some extreme animal-rights people who consider keeping pets to be virtually enslaving the animals in question.
Nothing PETA does surprises me anymore. Sometimes amuses, sometimes horrifies, but never surprises. I LOVE animals, but they’d never believe me if I told them so.
Some PETA idiots in the State of Washington started “rescuing” guide dogs from blind people to release them from their enslavement, and the state actually had to pass a law making it a felony to steal someone’s guide dog. Sheesh. Why, if PETA is so concerned about the well-being of animals in this world, don’t they worry about young HUMAN mammals? I mean, they’re animals, too, right?