Posted on 12/03/2018 11:16:07 AM PST by Enlightened1
PHRASES like “bringing home the bacon” and “flogging a dead horse” could be CULLED to avoid offending animal lovers, an academic has claimed.
Shareena Hamzah, from Swansea University, claimed the growing popularity of veganism could see people give meat-based metaphors the chop.
It could mean historical sayings such as "taking a bull by the horns" or “putting all one’s eggs in one basket” become a thing of the past.
Shareena Hamzah, of Swansea University, claimed the growing influence of veganism will raise awareness of animal cruelty and put an end to meaty descriptions.
Writing on academic website The Conversation she said: “In today’s reality, meat is repeatedly the subject of much socially and politically charged discussion, including about how the demand for meat is contributing to climate change and environmental degradation.
"Studies have indicated the negative effects of meat-eating on the human body.
"When concerns about animal welfare are added to the broth, the growth of vegetarianism and veganism threatens to dethrone meat from its position at the top of the food hierarchy.
“Given that fiction often reflects on real world events and societal issues, it may very well be that down the line powerful meat metaphors are eschewed.
"While it’s unlikely we’ll start saying that someone has been overlooked like 'chopped cabbage', some shift in language is inevitable.
“The increased awareness of vegan issues will filter through our consciousness to produce new modes of expression – after all, there’s more than one way to peel a potato.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...
Bacon, bacon, bacon!!!
A local Thai joint uses a lot of tofu in their buffet dishes. It's not bad, good texture, blends well. They've been there for decades, so I guess they know what they're doing.
Sooooo... One place, out of the hundreds (more?) restaurants where I've eaten, that makes tofu edible.
I hope Shareena Hamzah is going to be changing her name. “Soyzah” or “Nutzah” maybe?
From the same Brittie crazies who tried to get people to call the critters we call seafood as “sea kittens” a few years ago —their reasoning being that people wouldn’t want to eat “fish” if they were called “kittens”. (I would just assume they had catfish.) Which brings on a whole ‘nother kettle of of fish, what they would call “fish caught in a lake”? I would call it “dinner”.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink.
Well, herbivores produce tastier meat than carnivores. It seems to me as a regular meat eater that, come the zombie apocalypse, they will eat the vegans first. You might want to warn them if you know any.
Would they be appeased if we said, “Bringing home the Tofu?” Or would that be racist or appropriating culture since it was a Japanese product.
You can’t have any pudding if you don’t eat your meat.
He’s pretty funny.
“I love vegetarians. Pretty much all I eat are vegetarians, except for the occasional mountain lion steak.” Ted Nugent
That’s the end game.
These runts-of-the-litter should be beaten like rented mules for coming up with such nonsense...then sent to the glue factory.
How long before you are put in jail for your words? oops! it’s already here!
Who worries about offending those, um, people? Nobody can force me to kneel to the PC god.
Killing two birds with one stone.
More than one way to skin a cat.
Zombies eat brains ...
We really need to avoid running around like a chicken with his or her head removed, because it can degenerate into a dog-eat-dog situation...
After all, a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, even though there's more than one way to skin a cat.
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