Guest Will Scarlet Report post Posted April 23, 2003 PETA Urges Hamburg, N.Y., to Change Name HAMBURG, N.Y. - 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." You know, just when you think PETA cannot possibly do anything more idiotic, they go off and find a way to top themselves. Amazing. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Mad Dog Report post Posted April 23, 2003 These people have become complete fanatics. I wonder how long till some of these nutballs start murdering people in the names of animals. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Kahran Ramsus Report post Posted April 23, 2003 These people have become complete fanatics. I wonder how long till some of these nutballs start murdering people in the names of animals. Ever see The Hunted? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Mad Dog Report post Posted April 23, 2003 Possibly but I'm terrible at remembering them. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Eagan469 Report post Posted April 23, 2003 Hamburg's like 10 minutes away from here, and I always laughed at my grandma when we drove through there and she said "This is where Hamburgers came from!" guess she was right after all Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Choken One Report post Posted April 23, 2003 This is so Unbelievable...Can we not massacere a Billion Cows just to say "FUCK YOU VEGGIES"... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest JHawk Report post Posted April 23, 2003 What's next? St. Paul has to change its name because Muslims are moving in? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Zero_Cool Report post Posted April 23, 2003 Should we change the name of Los Angeles next due to a population of spanish atheists? I just laugh it this stuff now. I couldn't help it, and had to e-mail it to a vegan friend. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Vern Gagne Report post Posted April 23, 2003 What's next? St. Paul has to change its name because Muslims are moving in? Seriously how long before people are demanding something like that happens. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest CED Ordonez Report post Posted April 23, 2003 $15,000 may be enough to name a city Truth or Consequences, but the only way as a mayor I'd name a city Veggieburg for fifteen grand is if I hate the city and plan to vanish to somewhere in the west coast with my ill-gotten gain. I seriously question if PETA representative actually tried to say that name out loud to see if it was a good idea before making their offer. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Anglesault Report post Posted April 23, 2003 I'm waiting for St. Valentines day to get stupidized. It's managed to get by unscathed. Partly because about half the people don't say the "Saint" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bored 0 Report post Posted April 23, 2003 I think I speak for all Liberals when I say: PETA we don't want you...shoo go away. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest JHawk Report post Posted April 23, 2003 What PETA doesn't realize is that lettuce is a living thing too, but us meat-eaters don't go to Olive Garden and free the salad. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Downhome Report post Posted April 23, 2003 In honor of this, we should all eat a cow. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest DrTom Report post Posted April 23, 2003 That's how I honored Good Friday: chicken for lunch, and a pepperoni cheesesteak for dinner. Similar fare seems in order for this cause, as well. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest CED Ordonez Report post Posted April 23, 2003 Don't they also realize that Hamburg has legit German origins before the hamburger name existed?(feel free to call me on that if I'm incorrect) Obviously didn't stop them from trying to PETA-lize the Dutch named Fishkill, did it? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest JHawk Report post Posted April 23, 2003 And notice they're discriminating against New York and haven't mentioned Hamburg, Pennsylvania yet? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest I'm That Damn Zzzzz Report post Posted April 23, 2003 And notice they're discriminating against New York and haven't mentioned Hamburg, Pennsylvania yet? Like PETA gives a fuck. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest MD2020 Report post Posted April 23, 2003 Another example of why, if people want to help animals, they should donate time and money to the SPCA, and not PETA. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest starvenger Report post Posted April 23, 2003 Don't they also realize that Hamburg has legit German origins before the hamburger name existed?(feel free to call me on that if I'm incorrect) Obviously didn't stop them from trying to PETA-lize the Dutch named Fishkill, did it? I thought that Hamburgers DID come from Germany originally? Wasn't that the reason behind renaming hambuger steaks to Salisbury steaks? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Some Guy Report post Posted April 23, 2003 The town's name conjures up visions of unhealthy patties of ground-up dead cows," said Joe Haptas These PETA clowns might be the most undiplomatic people I've ever heard. How is that not going to be construed as a little insulting to the vast majority of people in this county who eat hamburgers. They're just fucking whacked. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest evenflowDDT Report post Posted April 23, 2003 What PETA doesn't realize is that lettuce is a living thing too, but us meat-eaters don't go to Olive Garden and free the salad. Speak for yourself. I just don't get PETA. I really don't. The clamor about how meat-eating is vile and how we're all unhealthy depraved people for doing such, and then they do something even stupider like this. It's hard to get a point across when you alienate your audience and make them burst into laughter. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Vern Gagne Report post Posted April 23, 2003 OK does PETA think the town would change it's name for $15,000 worth of non-beef patties. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Ash Ketchum Report post Posted April 23, 2003 Maybe the World Wildlife Fund and PETA can join together and form the stupidest activist group on the face of Planet Earth. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Choken One Report post Posted April 23, 2003 WWF is actully a very respectable company... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Some Guy Report post Posted April 23, 2003 OK does PETA think the town would change it's name for $15,000 worth of non-beef patties. Hamburg to PETA-no lectuce and special sauce=no deal. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Cerebus Report post Posted April 23, 2003 This is mild for PETA to say the least. 15,000 to get Hamburg to change its name when they usually spend about 5000 or less a year on animal shelters. They also have their lovely "Holcaust on your Plate" campaign (to which i circulated a petition against) as well as $55,000 for the legal defense of an arsonist (the same year they payed a little less than $3000 to animal shelters). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest CED Ordonez Report post Posted April 23, 2003 $55,000 in defense of an arsonist? What was the backstory on that case? All you need to know about animal activists: SPCA & WWF > the average normal human being (in relation to animals) > PETA Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Cerebus Report post Posted April 24, 2003 Unfortunately i've lost the original AP report but this is the part I cited in an old speech of mine... Eleven million animals are destroyed annually for lack of facilities. PETA spent less than $3,955 of its $12 million in fiscal year 1995 and $6,100 of its $10.9 million in fiscal 1996 for shelter programs, according to its nonprofit tax forms filed with the IRS. In contrast, PETA sent $70,500 in 1995 to Rodney Coronado, a convicted arsonist and avowed member of the domestic-terrorist group called the Animal Liberation Front. Coronado served a five-year federal prison sentence for a 1992 animal-rights-related firebombing at Michigan State University. so i guess i was wrong, it was $70000+... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Sandman9000 Report post Posted April 24, 2003 I think I speak for all Liberals when I say: PETA we don't want you...shoo go away. I think I speak for everyone when I say: PETA, we don't want you, go away. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
