SLAUGHTER BEACH — An animal rights organization, in a letter mailed to the mayor Tuesday, has asked Slaughter Beach to consider changing its name to Sanctuary Beach.
A follow-up press release from PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) said the group thought the town’s name ought to be changed to something “kinder, positive and more appropriate” as to not evoke imagery of “dead and dying animals.”
Slaughter Beach Mayor Harry Ward said he was bewildered by the letter.
“I find them to be presumptuous, disrespectful, and self-serving,” he said. “That an organization many miles away, with so little knowledge of our town, history and culture, would presume to know what’s best for us is incredible to me.”
PETA is based in Norfolk, Virginia.
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Don't they know Snowflakes melt on the beach?
PETA can go and suck an egg on this one.
There is also a move to rename Niagara Falls to something less racist.
Seriously, some people think this is a form of the "N" word!
The excellent man I hire for septic work, Slaughter Septic. Family name.
PETA can go Norfolk themselves, leave Delmarva out of your shenanigans!
Go Slaughter yourselves PETA!
How the Murderkill River in Kent County?
Mr Bob
Peta is People Eating Tasty Animals...just go away and stay away. period...
Slaughter Beach is a town in Sussex County, Delaware, United States. The population was 207 at the 2010 census, an increase of 4.5% over the past decade. It is part of the Salisbury, Maryland-Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area. Slaughter Beach was founded in 1681 and incorporated in 1931. There are at least three stories of where the town's name came from: The first is that it was named after William Slaughter, a local postmaster in the mid-19th century. The second story claims “the name came from the horseshoe crabs that wash up on shore and die each year. They come near shore to shallow water to lay their eggs and the low tide strands them leaving them to die, thus the "slaughter.""[citation needed] The third story, and the most contested source of the town's name, stems from a local legend which tells of a man named Brabant who, in the mid-18th century, "slaughtered" several indigenous inhabitants by cannon in order to prevent an impending massacre.
So it's offensive to have a surname now. Idiots.
Let's change their name to POS!
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