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 Britains oldest, according to Guinness World Records, and has had the name since 1872.
According to PETA, however, history just doesnt 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 its high time for The Cocks to change, the groups 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 wont 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.
Pork Soda tonight.
St Alphonzo’s pancakes in the morning.
And mebbe a trip ta da U.P.
PETA
Sounds like
Pita
Offensive to the Greeks?
It’s scary when you think that there are people who finance PETA! And they are not confined to mental institutions!
Thanks for the comedy intermission. :-)
PETA’s Mimi obviously never raised chickens, like I did. Social, yes, even sometimes funny and cute, but intelligent?? Hahaha*gasp*haha*wheeze*
I would love to open a pub in their honor. “The Ugly Sow”’
If a chicken ever makes it to other side of the road, I’ll be amazed but, I’ll hear him out.....
What gets me is the many thousands of animals they kill anually and claim to be for animal rights. I live on red meat and am responsible for fewer animal deaths than their nasty little animal annihilation consortium they purport to be for ethical treatment.
“Where I stole the margarine!”
LOL!
It’s just great that they are so concerned about chickens’ sensibilities. Come to think of it, chickens, one of the least intelligent birds, are likely much smarter than they are!
"I am an American fighting man. I serve in the forces which guard my country and our way of life. I am prepared to give my life in their defense." |
Good points. Liberalism and hypocrisy go hand in hand.
America’s chickens comin’ home to roost...
sensitive and social animals they are,
To add to your comment, if they are so sensitive and social why are they prone to fighting to the death? If it wasn’t in their DNA somewhere they could not be made to fight.
There goes Plan B for the Washington NFL team.
Well lucky for us American men there are plenty of good looking Mexican hotties out there, even though most of em ain’t citizes. White chicks are FUBAR this day in age.
This issue is as close to a real cock as the leader of the UK will ever be.
The whole story is abouth nothing but “poppycock”, “chickenshit” and one wacked out leftist, bird-loving (the next form of marriage?) leftist “bird”, who has too much time on her hands.
Next Mimi will want to ban the Marx Brothers great movie “Horsefeathers” as it demeans “horses”, “feathers” and “horses with feathers”.
Maybe we can ban “featherbrains”.
This whole thing is for the “birds”.
Simple: tell PETA you don’t mean chickens.
I just fed my meat chickens. They asked for beer and if there were any good chicken fights on TV.
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