Posted on 05/20/2015 5:52:24 PM PDT by smoothsailing
May 20, 2015
By Katherine Timpf
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sent a letter to the oldest bar in Britain on Monday demanding that it change its historic name because “Ye Olde Fighting Cocks” is offensive to chickens.
PETA director Mimi Bekhechi said the name should be changed to “Ye Olde Clever Cocks” because that would “celebrate chickens as the intelligent, sensitive and social animals they are,” according to an article in the Mirror.
The pub is Britain’s oldest, according to Guinness World Records, and has had the name since 1872.
According to PETA, however, history just doesn’t matter when it comes to something this serious.
“We understand that the pub has long been called Ye Olde Fighting Cocks and that there may be some resistance to making a name change, but just as many pubs with names tied to slavery changed their names to match modern sensibilities, so it’s high time for The Cocks to change,” the group’s special-projects manager Dawn Carr said in a letter, according to the Herts Advertiser.
(Yes — “slavery.”)
Carr added that the name change would “encourage people to rethink the way that we treat chickens and grant these birds the respect and kindness that they deserve.”
Despite all of these super-compelling arguments, however, the local newspaper St Albans & Harpenden Review is reporting that the pub has no plans to change its name.
“We have a responsibility to preserve the history of this building,” landlord Christo Tofalli said. “We celebrate the fact that cock fighting was banned in the 1800s, but we won’t consider changing our name.”
“We are animal lovers here and are one of the few pubs left that welcomes dogs,” he continued. “And we usually support animal welfare organizations and a lot of the great work they do.”
— Katherine Timpf is a reporter for National Review Online.
Poke’m in the eye with a stick and rename the bar “Animal Cruelty”.
LOL!!! Classic! 8^)
What’s the best BBQ sauce for an offended chicken?
PETA—the organization that promises to find new homes for pets, but murders them as soon as the owner turns his/her back. PETA, for whom it seems Terry McAuliffe signed a new Virginia law requiring shelters to actually find homes for animals (the law doesn’t state that, but the way it is written looks like it was specifically targeted at PETA). PETA, whose founder Ingrid Newkirk, when she was a Washington DC animal control officer, came in to work early every morning because she couldn’t wait to get to her favorite part of the job, killing dogs who weren’t adopted quickly enough.
Whenever I see some PETA spokesman say something stupid, like this being overly worried about chickens’ feelings, I think of what a bunch of hypocrits they are. People who genuinely care about animals do not talk as if the animals are equivalent to human while killing animals every chance they get.
What a dumb cluck.
It did for me as well, nowadays it is sometimes difficult to see that fine line between satire and reality...
We are living in bizarro world...
Fun fact: not a single chicken on Earth has heard of this pub. Or pubs. Or PETA.
Grab yourself a can of pork soda. You’ll be feelin just fine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9gqStFxAo4
Classic is precisely the right word for ole Foghorn Leghorn. LOL!
Leftist insanity knows no bounds.
in the cartoon universe in which PETA exists....they can...
In a lot of ways these days satire has become reality and vice versa.
They stopped fighting once their heads were detached.
When I saw the name of the pub I actually thought it had something to do with a sword fight.
Warning, we are definitely on the same wave length tonight! LOL!
Then make read, “Loosing cocks 1/2 price”!!!
How can anyone take these idiots seriously? Apparently, they are too muddled to know how ridiculous they are.
No kidding. I don’t see how they can’t feel idiotic about spewing this ridiculous tripe.
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