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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“Bringing home the lentils” just doesn’t have the same ring.
Bottle blonde....likely RoP
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Rate of penetration?
No not even close
Wheres the beef?
Another phrase Dr. Hamzah won’t like:
It’s time for the old nag to be sent to the glue factory.
PETA has - once again - revealed its true colors by working to ban language it doesn’t like. They are nothing more and nothing less than would-be fascist dictators...and they should be treated as such. Freedom of speech is only the first thing that they’ll gleefully take from us.
Especially since the quinoa craze has pretty much left the indigenous people without their staple food since they can’t afford the going price for it now.
“Where’s the beets?” could almost make it in Wendy’s advertising if beets were a practical fast food.
Corned beets doesn’t do a thing for me though.
That’s funny.....I guess the peta pests are content to beat their tofurkey............boy, their language just has no flow or syntax.
How about bringing home the hummus?
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