FW: PETA Changing NY State's Historical Names??

[sagehen]

 >Liz Martinez forwarded:
>
>The animal rights group based in Norfolk, Va., renewed its call, first made
>nearly a decade ago, for Fishkill to change its name. The group now wants
>the town and village to be known as fishinghurts.com, which just happens to
>be the Internet address for a PETA Web site dedicated to the group's ''fish
>empathy project.''
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Were these the same people that were trying to substitute names of
vegetables (!)  for terms like "dog" and "turkey" as pejoratives a couple
of years ago?  ISTR a short thread about this on ADS-L.
AM