Animal Rights Activists PETA Demand British Village Called Wool Change Its Name

A sheep is shorn in the Lake District National Park, northern England on July 20, 2018. Oli Scarff/AFP/Getty Images

LONDON—A cozy British village nestled in the rolling hills of Dorset has been asked by animal rights activists to add the word “vegan” to its name.

The village of Wool, which takes its name from an old English word meaning “well” or “water spring,” received a letter from animal rights charity PETA asking it to change the village’s name to Vegan Wool.