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Obscene phrase of the day: ‘bred for eating’

Posted on January 31, 2018 by There's an Elephant in the Room

Originally posted 1 September 2014, revised and links updated 31 January 2018 ‘bred for eating’ (variation: ‘bred for food’) ‘But surely you realise that they were ‘bred for eating‘?’ It’s a sentence frequently uttered triumphantly by those seeking to justify eating … Continue reading →

Posted in Addressing resistance to change, Terminology | Tagged brutality, commodification, consumer demand, decency, enslavement, entitlement, harm, human superiority, humane, justice, moral choices, necessity, ownership, resources, respect, sentience, speciesism, superiority, Torture, truth, vegan, veganism, victims, violation, violence, vulnerable | 7 Comments

‘There’s an Elephant in the Room’ – why this title?

Posted on January 15, 2018 by There's an Elephant in the Room

‘Elephant in the room’ is a metaphorical idiom for something obvious that is either being ignored or is not being addressed. It is based on the idea that an elephant in the room would be impossible to avoid noticing; with … Continue reading →

Posted in Advocacy, Speciesism, Terminology | Tagged consumer demand, dairy, death, eggs, harm, milk, misery, moral choices, nonviolence, sentience, speciesism, Torture, vegan, veganism, victims, violation, violence | Leave a comment

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Obscene phrase of the day: ‘bred for eating’

‘There’s an Elephant in the Room’ – why this title?

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