PETA Urges Hamburg, N.Y., to Change Name

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PETA Urges Hamburg, N.Y., to Change Name By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 2:56 p.m. ET

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.''

[Sub-Driver]

mindless.......

[Severa]

Ugh. That's the ONLY thing I hate about where I live...it's within about a half hour from these nutcases.

[Airborne Longhorn]

These morons have entirely too much time on their hands, and too little intellectual horsepower to put it to constructive use...

[prairiebreeze]

I think "Bloody Dead Red Meat-burg" has a nice ring to it.

Prairie

[Larry Lucido]

Fishsave

What would you "save" fish for? So they can live out their last years in fish retirement villas?

[b4its2late]

They should change the name - to 100percentbeef, NY

[CindyDawg]

Now McDonalds needs to make a counter offer if they will add an "er" to their name.

[Redcloak]

I heard once that the addition of meat to the diets of the early Hominids caused their brains to develop. The loss of gray matter in PETA members would seem to support this theory.

[M Kehoe]

Excellent. Another PETA article. Time to slaughter a lamb for the barbie.

5.56mm

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"MediumRareBurg"

[Zavien Doombringer]

Hamburg, GE. The birth place of the Hamburger!! It wasn't named the other way around. Frankfurt, GE. Home of the Frankfurter, or Sausage. I would semise that everytown of Hamburg and Frankfurt are going to be hit with this. Watch out Kansas!!!

[SkiHatGuy]

I know a few Animal Rescue shelters that could use 15K.

[prairiebreeze]

LOL!

Prairie

[bc2]

idiot alert!

[handk]

I recall when Carl Sagan took Apple Computers to court for using his name as "code" for a secret project.

Apple capitulated and informed the judge that henceforth the new name for their secret project would be BUTTHEAD ASTRONOMER. If the City of Hamburg were to change its name, it should be something like PetaSucks, New York.

[Zavien Doombringer]

Someone needs to hack into PETA's Website and put in bold letters across thier slogan "APRIL FOOLS, IT IS ALL A JOKE!!" No body is ever going to listen to them seriously anymore, anyway...

[Billthedrill]

"Vivisectionville" ain't taken.

[CindyDawg]

According to the article they didn't offer cash. It was veggie burgers. Dont know if the animals would eat um or not.

[Welsh Rabbit]

I like it when they do flakey stuff like this. It justs showcases their utter ridiculousness to the public.

[TonyWojo]

People Eating Tasty Animals