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‘Bringing Home The Bacon’ Could Be BANNED To Stop Vegans Getting Offended
The Sun ^ | 12/03/18 | Thomas Burrows

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 ...


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To: Enlightened1

Bacon, bacon, bacon!!!


21 posted on 12/03/2018 11:28:12 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know. how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Hoffer Rand
“There’s more than one way to barf up tofu.”

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.

22 posted on 12/03/2018 11:28:26 AM PST by wbill
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To: Enlightened1

I hope Shareena Hamzah is going to be changing her name. “Soyzah” or “Nutzah” maybe?


23 posted on 12/03/2018 11:30:47 AM PST by married21 ( As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: Enlightened1

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.


24 posted on 12/03/2018 11:32:19 AM PST by Southern Magnolia
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To: Enlightened1

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.


25 posted on 12/03/2018 11:32:40 AM PST by gspurlock (http://www.backyardfence.wordpress.com)
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To: Enlightened1

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.


26 posted on 12/03/2018 11:33:22 AM PST by tiki
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To: Enlightened1

You can’t have any pudding if you don’t eat your meat.


27 posted on 12/03/2018 11:36:34 AM PST by rfp1234 (I have already previewed this composition.)
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To: Enlightened1
LOL!


28 posted on 12/03/2018 11:36:41 AM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Enlightened1
LOL!


29 posted on 12/03/2018 11:36:47 AM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: RightGeek

He’s pretty funny.


30 posted on 12/03/2018 11:37:48 AM PST by RinaseaofDs
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To: Enlightened1

“I love vegetarians. Pretty much all I eat are vegetarians, except for the occasional mountain lion steak.” Ted Nugent


31 posted on 12/03/2018 11:38:26 AM PST by cyclotic ( Democrats must be politically eviscerated, disemboweled and demolished.)
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To: RightGeek
Sorry for the double post.


32 posted on 12/03/2018 11:38:38 AM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: BBQToadRibs

That’s the end game.


33 posted on 12/03/2018 11:40:10 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Democracy dies when Democrats refuse to accept the result of a democratic election they didn't win.)
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To: Enlightened1

34 posted on 12/03/2018 11:43:19 AM PST by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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To: Enlightened1

These runts-of-the-litter should be beaten like rented mules for coming up with such nonsense...then sent to the glue factory.


35 posted on 12/03/2018 11:46:26 AM PST by GCC Catholic (Trump doesn't suffer fools, but fools will suffer Trump. Make America Great Again!)
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To: Enlightened1

How long before you are put in jail for your words? oops! it’s already here!


36 posted on 12/03/2018 11:47:24 AM PST by I want the USA back (There are two sexes: male (pronoun HE), and female (pronoun SHE). Denial of this is insanity.)
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To: Enlightened1

Who worries about offending those, um, people? Nobody can force me to kneel to the PC god.


37 posted on 12/03/2018 11:48:22 AM PST by GingisK
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To: Enlightened1

Killing two birds with one stone.

More than one way to skin a cat.


38 posted on 12/03/2018 11:51:31 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: gspurlock
come the zombie apocalypse, they will eat the vegans first.

Zombies eat brains ...

39 posted on 12/03/2018 11:52:39 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Enlightened1
There are several ways to counter this offensive PC offensive.

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.

.

40 posted on 12/03/2018 11:52:46 AM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in-never, never,never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. Winston Churchill)
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