Pacific Standard wrote, “The idea is complex, but the gist is that, insofar as language provides a method of simplification — ‘language simplifies the designated thing’ — it’s easy for that simplification to become a form of ‘verbal violence.’ … The upshot is that the words we choose to represent the animals we eat are … are moral choices with clear implications for acceptance of violence in modern life.”
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