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'Bringing home the bacon' and other phrases PETA wants banned
San Francisco Chronicle ^
| December 4, 2018
| By Mike Moffitt
Posted on 12/04/2018 11:31:54 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Common idiomatic expressions like "bringing home the bacon" may eventually fall out of usage as more people embrace vegetarianism and veganism, a university researcher says.
Dr. Shareena Hamzah of Swansea University says meat- and animal-themed phrases will slowly be abandoned as awareness of animal cruelty and the negative effects of raising animals for meat production - on both the climate and the human body - grows.
People will become less likely to use meat/animal metaphors in order not to offend sensitive vegan ears, Hamzah says.
PETA, of course, is all for speeding up the process when it comes to rewriting idioms that reference meat or animal cruelty. The animal rights activist group is already promoting revisions, such has replacing "flog a dead horse" with "feed a fed horse."
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: food; maroons; peta
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Dr. Shareena Hamzah of Swansea University:
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Im amenable to Bring home the sliced pork bellies.
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posted on
12/04/2018 11:34:29 AM PST
by
Brilliant
To: Oldeconomybuyer
“Bite me”. Oh wait. That offends vegans but not fagola.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Really?! And you wonder why George Orwell wrote the famous essay Politics and the English Language.
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posted on
12/04/2018 11:35:43 AM PST
by
RayChuang88
(FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Sorry, but “Bringing home the tofu” or “Bringing home to quinoa” just doesn’t have the same oomph to it.
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posted on
12/04/2018 11:36:04 AM PST
by
IYAS9YAS
(There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
Let's invite her over for a big ol' pig out?
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posted on
12/04/2018 11:39:28 AM PST
by
Sa-teef
To: Oldeconomybuyer
How does she feel about being called “horseface”?
To: IYAS9YAS
how about “stuffing oats down a dead vegan”?
To: Oldeconomybuyer
I guess PETA wouldn't be interested in the "Ignorant Burger" from
Stoopid Burger.
Ignorant Burger
Includes stoopid sauce & fries. 3 Beef Patties, Steak, Bacon, Hot Link, Ham, Stoopid Chutney, Cheddar, Blue Cheese, Egg, Mushrooms, Grilled Onions, Jalapenos With Fries
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posted on
12/04/2018 11:47:26 AM PST
by
COBOL2Java
(Marxism: Trendy theory, wrong species)
To: Sa-teef
Malaysian or Iranian (not sure which) and got her PhD this year from the UK school:
I gained my PhD in English Literature at Swansea University in 2018 with a study of the contemporary fiction of Jeanette Winterson. In this research, I created a fresh critical discourse about her work by providing a new conceptual model I term alternative fetishism. This combines the negative and positive associations of fetishism and substitution to analyse the distinctive ways in which Wintersons obsession with the English language drives her diverse narratives."
How that qualifies her to tell us how to speak our native language is....mysterious.
One more dingbat looking for her 15 minutes of fame.
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posted on
12/04/2018 11:49:41 AM PST
by
Sa-teef
To: Oldeconomybuyer
such has replacing "flog a dead horse" with "feed a fed horse."
If you feed a full horse, he will founder and die.(Urban people are stupid about animals)
Then, you can beat a dead horse.
Old sayings are old sayings because they are true.
Eat me, PETA
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posted on
12/04/2018 11:50:15 AM PST
by
RedMonqey
("Those who turn their arms in for plowshares will be doing the plowing for those who didn't.")
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Well, OK then, how about Driving home the kielbasa? Would that be more acceptable?
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Leftists slowly boiling the First Amendment frog.
To: RedMonqey
Eat me, PETA Speaking of which, does that mean Animal House has to be edited?
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Sure looks like she could be related to Valerie Jarrett. Is she a muzzie too?
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posted on
12/04/2018 11:59:13 AM PST
by
mass55th
(Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
animal-themed phrases will slowly be abandoned
To: Oldeconomybuyer
How about “I gotta take a PETA!”
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posted on
12/04/2018 12:04:08 PM PST
by
SgtHooper
(If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
To: Brilliant
I’m glad I saw this, I was out of bacon for breakfast this morning.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
No doubt a long lineage of English blood
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posted on
12/04/2018 12:16:41 PM PST
by
Nifster
(I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Bottle blonde....likely RoP
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posted on
12/04/2018 12:25:02 PM PST
by
Nifster
(I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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