PETA Urges Hamburg, N.Y., to Change Name By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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.
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Ummm, unhealthy patties of ground-up dead cows. What’s next? Will PETA force the New York Shakespeare festival to put on a rendition of Shakespeare’s Veggielet? Two beets or not two beets, that is the question.
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I will pitch in for a PETA member’s airfare to Hamburg, Germany so that they can attempt the same stunt there.
An excellent idea. The population of Hamburg, NY, is about 10,000, so the going rate is $1.50 per capita. Hamburg, Germany has about 1.7 million, so that should cost PETA $2,550,000. Let’s add side trips to Frankfurt (644,000, $966,000) and Bologna, Italy (500,000, $750,000). Finally, let’s finish up in Turkey (66.5 million, $100,000,000). Can you say “bankruptcy”?