Football’s Green Bay Packers are in the middle of obtaining new financing for renovating and expanding Lambeau Field where they play, and one the possibilities that has come up is selling the right to name the renovated field.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals weighed in recently suggesting the team needs to drop the Packers moniker as well since it promotes violence against animals. The name is a reference to meat packers and was adopted as the team name in 1919.
According to PETA activist Bruce Friedrich, the team could be renamed the “Pickers” to allude to picking fruit and crops. Forgetting the controversy PETA got involved in over its “Drink Beer” campaign, they also suggest renaming the team the Green Bay “Six-Packers” in reference to Wisconsin’s brewing industry.
Since PETA solicits millions in donations and spends almost all of it on stupid publicity stunts rather than anything to improve animal welfare, why doesn’t Ingrid Newkirk offer the Packers a few million dollars to change the name? That wouldn’t be any bigger waste of money than other ridiculous things PETA gets involved with.
Source:
Packers Will Stick With Name. The Associated Press, June 26, 2000.