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Why PETA wants this pub to be renamed and change to be all-vegan

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By Ben Turner via SWNS

Animal rights group PETA has demanded Britain's "oldest pub" Ye Olde Fighting Cocks is renamed "The Happy Hens" and has an all-vegan menu.

The "bonkers" proposal came days after pub landlord Christo Tofalli, 53, announced he was leaving the 1,300-year-old boozer due to financial difficulties caused by the pandemic.

Ye Olde Fighting Cocks' parent company is currently looking for a new landlord.

Now, PETA - People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - is seizing the moment to demand a "21st-century revamp" of the pub, which dates back to 793AD and once hosted Oliver Cromwell.

Activists say the pub's name "calls to mind the violence and cruelty of a hideous blood sport that has been outlawed in the UK for more than a century."

They have suggested Ye Olde Clever Cocks as a new name, as well as The Cheery Chooks and The Happy Hens.

Campaigners are also demanding the pub, which served classic British grub, adopt a fully plant-based menu.

The open letter, penned by PETA's vegan chief Dawn Carr, calls on pub company Mitchells & Butlers to "bring the pub into the 21st century" with the changes.

But local punters have ridiculed the proposals for undermining the boozer's history.

Caroline Thain wrote on Facebook: "As an eco aware animal loving human, thereā€™s no way they should change the name.

"Why donā€™t they put their time, energy and other resources into helping real animal cruelty and leave history and heritage which speaks truth - light and dark - to crack on?!"

Debbie Lynn agreed: "Not everyone wants to eat vegan food. Why change a historical pub name."

In a simple defiant comment, Rachael Longley wrote: "Bonkers. Why is it even any of their business."

Other residents threatened to boycott the pub if it adopted PETA's proposals.

Steph Herbst Farley wrote: "If it goes all vegan Iā€™m not going."

Rob Tillotson added: "Bunch of idiots, pub in crisis, lets alienate it even more with a menu for what, less than a quarter of the areas population?"

Mitchells & Butlers was contacted for comment.

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