Maybe the Name Can Be Changed to ‘Ye Olde Fighting Redskins’

PeTA is just plain Offensive! Go ask a Chicken. m/r

PETA Demands Bar Change Its Name Because ‘Ye Olde Fighting Cocks’ Is Offensive to Chickens | National Review Online

by KATHERINE TIMPF May 20, 2015 

PETA wants “Ye Olde Clever Cocks” instead. 

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.  


Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/418658/peta-demands-bar-change-its-name-because-ye-olde-fighting-cocks-offensive-chickens