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| Jul 31st, 2003 09:30 PM | |
| Zero Signal |
Young Activist Changes Name to GoVeg.com http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp.../she_s_goveg_2 "She knew her new name might finally stick when she got a phone message recently: "Hi, GoVeg.com. This is your mother. Please call me." It might sound more than a little odd — but it's true. A young animal rights activist from Indiana once known as Karin Robertson has legally changed her name to that of a Web site run by her employer, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. It's not a first name or a last name — just one name. And don't call her "Veg" or "Dot," as some have tried to do. "I like the whole name together," says the 23-year-old recent college graduate, who is now a youth educator for PETA and living in Norfolk, Va., where the organization is based. The point, she says, isn't necessarily to promote PETA, where her bosses were as surprised as anyone when she came to them with the idea this past spring. She says she made the switch to get people talking about vegetarianism and animal rights wherever she pulls out her new driver's license — at the airport, the bank or anyplace else. "People are really perplexed," she says. "They say, 'You've got to be joking.'" They usually laugh — and so does she." The joke is on her; what a moron.  "The point, she says, isn't necessarily to promote PETA" BULLSHIT. |
