descriptive terms

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On 5/6/08, Pat <drpatsant wrote:

> Yes, I can hear the '' clicks even as I read this Big rule

> here (but how could you know so soon unless you'd read all your files

> received upon joining and read the homepage - take a peek, okay?): we don't

> discuss eating animal carcases because this offends almost all vegetarians

> for one reason or another.

 

This is why when I mention eating animal flesh, I rarely use the terms

beef, pork or fowl, but instead call it dead cow, dead pig, etc --

because this is what it is, and our society seems to try to pretty it

up with these names that " remove " us one step from the reality of what

we are doing. Lots of people don't like the terms I use and seem

shocked by it; maybe it makes some who eat meat start thinking about

what they're doing, so they feel challenged or judged. Sometimes a

spade needs to be called a spade, though it pisses people off. (I

don't mean here.)

 

My apologies, and it won't happen here again.

 

--

Kate, author of The Secret Journal of Suzanne Bellerive

http://suzannebellerive.wordpress.com

[Guest guest]

Sorry - thought I'd answered this You say:

 

> I rarely

> use the terms

> beef, pork or fowl, but instead call it dead cow, dead pig,

> etc --

> because this is what it is

 

Good strategy imo. I also use murdered animal, corpse, flesh,

dead muscle, etc. Not a pretty thought either.

 

>our society seems to try

> to pretty it

> up with these names that " remove " us one step

> from the reality of what

> we are doing.

 

Yes indeed, and it's been that way for a long time. In the English language

'Beef' is taken from the French boeuf, pork from porc, mutton from mouton, for

example, and was introduced into the UK and therefore to the 'English' language

after William the Conqueror - and so it goes. The French words, which were used

at court, were considered more sophisticated and polite than cow, pig and sheep,

and still are. Other languages, however, can be a little more forthright.

 

> Lots of people don't like the terms I use

> and seem

> shocked by it

 

Awwwww! *lol*

 

Thanks for writing in again - keep up the lovely posts and your personal

campaign against hypocrisy I like it!

 

Love and hugs, Pat

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My blog: http://beanvegan.blogspot.com

" Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are

called medical research. " (George Bernard Shaw)

 

 

 

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