{"id":756967,"date":"2019-05-05T07:49:27","date_gmt":"2019-05-05T11:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=756967"},"modified":"2019-05-05T07:49:27","modified_gmt":"2019-05-05T11:49:27","slug":"bigger-fish-to-free-petas-complete-list-of-animal-friendly-idioms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=756967","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Bigger Fish to Free&#8217;: PETA\u2019s Complete List of Animal-Friendly Idioms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>PETA:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;It has perhaps never been more evident that words carry immense power&#8230; Unfortunately, many of us grew-up hearing phrases that condone violence toward animals and perpetuate speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. Sayings such as \u201ckill two birds with one stone,\u201d \u201cbeat a dead horse,\u201d and \u201cbring home the bacon\u201d all normalize violent acts against some of the most defenseless members of our society.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Since PETA released our list of updated, animal-friendly idioms, people have instead been \u201cfeeding two birds with one scone\u201d trying not to \u201cfeed a fed horse,\u201d and \u201cbringing home the bagels\u201d\u2014and we\u2019ve been seeing this nonviolent language popping up on social media. So we\u2019re back at it, updating old, speciesist phrases. Since no one really wants to skin a cat, break a camel\u2019s back, or chase wild geese, here\u2019s PETA\u2019s complete list of animal-friendly idioms&#8217;.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peta.org\/features\/animal-friendly-idioms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OMMKEwsJF2M\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PETA: &#8216;It has perhaps never been more evident that words carry immense power&#8230; Unfortunately, many of us grew-up hearing phrases that condone violence toward animals and perpetuate speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. Sayings such as \u201ckill two birds with one stone,\u201d \u201cbeat a dead horse,\u201d and \u201cbring home the bacon\u201d all normalize violent acts against some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":756968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,18,25],"tags":[30,35,37],"class_list":["post-756967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-ethics","category-welfare","tag-exploitation","tag-protection","tag-speciesism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=756967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":756969,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756967\/revisions\/756969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/756968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=756967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=756967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=756967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}