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PETA Calls for Georgia President ‘to Be a Peach’ And Retire Mascot Uga

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Just days after Georgia won its second consecutive College Football Playoff national championship, PETA is calling for the school’s beloved mascot, an English bulldog named Uga, to be retired and a human mascot to take its place.

“As the back-to-back national champion, can’t UGA find it in its heart to honestly examine the impact of its promotion of deformed dogs and call time on its outdated, live-animal mascot program?” PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman said in a press release. “PETA is calling on Jere Morehead to be a peach and replace poor Uga with a human mascot who can support the team in a winning way.