Now, I love animals. I really and truly do. I think what happens to them in the food industry is horrible, in fact, I'm a vegetarian myself partly because of it, and animal abuse is not something that should be taken lightly.
PETA, or People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, is arguably the most popular animal rights advocacy group in the world, and their most recent course of action has provided the Internet with no shortage of fuel for funny memes and tweets. In order to remove what PETA calls "speciesism" from our language, the group has devised alternative phrases for commonly known idioms. Suggestions include saying "feed two birds with one scone," instead of "kill two birds with one stone," and "bring home the bagels," instead of "bring home the bacon." (See the full list below)
PETA aims to stop what seems like the normalization of animal abuse phrases, and through their good intentions are clear, the execution is now the butt of many online jokesters.
DISCLAIMER: Many of these tweets do not reflect my personal opinion, they are just funny.
The Original
This is the tweet that started it all. The full tweet itself reads "Words matter, and as our understanding of social justice evolves, our language evolves along with it. Here's how to remove speciesism from your daily conversations."
Is this really where PETA needs to be focusing it's efforts?
Taking it to the next level
Bruce Garrett on Twitter
For the Eagles fans out there
Another suggestion to add to the list
An alternate perspective is offered...
And this guy agrees
How about the Anti-Food Language?
The tweet itself: Am I doing this right? Stop using anti-Food language. #DadJokes
Asking the real questions here
More suggestions!
But what about him?
Wow, someone broke the rules already.
For the readers out there
The tweet itself stated, "Just as it became unacceptable to use racist, homophobic, or ableist language, phrases that trivialize cruelty to books will vanish as more people appreciate books for what they are."
Someone's an optimist!
I love it too.
The important message
Tweeted after PETA also offered up "curiosity thrilled the cat," instead of "curiosity killed the cat."
For all the Avengers fans out there
Full Tweet: Words do matter! Here are my rules.
This man's just over it
So yes, the tweets are funny, and the memes are popular, but hopefully, it does encourage us to take a look at true animal cruelty a bit more closely. Plus if people do not think that I am going to use "bring home the bagels unironically," then they're dead wrong.
