PETA: Calling Someone a Chicken is Supremacist Language, Actually
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- Опубліковано 1 лют 2021
- Thoughts on Peta's campaign against anti-animal slurs and idioms
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Okay, so let's just compare idioms here. They weren't all bad....but walking on egg shells versus walking on broken glass?? Those mean two very different things. They're lost in the imagery (or perhaps just the first two words) and forgetting the original meaning of the idioms they're attempting to replace.
Walking on egg shells = being careful (trying to not break the figurative egg shells)
Walking on broken glass = a punishment...because the glass is already broken, so your feet are getting figuratively cut up
It's nit-picky, I know, but it really bothered me.
Walking on broken glass is also about being careful where you walk though. It's just different because one is you trying to not break anything and the other is you trying to not hurt yourself
walking on legos
@@DemyrNox Yeah, while I can definitely appreciate that people can mean whatever they want, more or less, these idioms do have historically accepted meanings.
And if PETA's going to suggest a long-term replacement of a widely accepted and understood idiom, it might be best to choose something that doesn't have a completely different meaning and connotation according to not just the way people generally use it, but the history/origin of the idiom.
I saw someone else say that "walking on thin ice" might be more appropriate.
But at the end of the day, this is all just nit-picky and semantics-based when I don't even think "walking on egg shells" is doing any harm anyway. :)
Im with you
Love that they say 'instead of sloth, say lazy'... but... the word sloth means slow or lazy. ''Sloth' is literally one of the deadly sins. If anything, the poor sloths need a better name.
I can’t anymore. I am done...
Lmao for real
Lol
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Taking the concept of language changing the mindscape and applying it straight to animal rights is just stupid. Calling someone a chicken is as bad as supremacist language? What?
That reminds me there is a saying in my language 'angry as a dragon' and I will now be replacing it with something else, do not want to offend any dragons.
angry as a freelee!
Actions are way more important and impactful than word choices.
Yep and peta KILLS thousands of animals every year.
I hate having my language policed constantly by fringes. If I can learn to be a better person by changing some of my language, good, help me not to hurt others. But this is like...irritating.
It's Orwellian.
@@Telenova. right because PETA is the government now.....lol. clown
@@its.albert.510 You don't have to be the Government to have a political agenda. “'Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. '” 1984
I agree and not just in this specific aspect, but overall. I certainly see the benefit in modifying language that’s potentially harmful and I personally seek to not be offensive, but things are getting out of hand.
@@Telenova. That’s not what Orwellian means. Gosh its irritating when people use concepts like “Orwellian” in utterly wrong ways to fit their narrative.
I’d just like to note that their description of snake behaviour is pretty inaccurate. I love snakes but they aren’t social creatures typically.
and like, why do we have to give them mammalian qualities in order to feel empathy with them. Can't we empathize with them because they feel pain like we do and clearly have desires and preferences? Isn't that enough?
@@therabbithat I totally agree. Sure, they aren’t really animals capable of experiencing emotions like “love” the way we experience it. Doesn’t mean we can’t love them. It’s just a one-sided relationship, kind of like what us viewers have with our favourite UA-cam creators lol. Plus snakes have so many assets that make them incredibly fascinating and admirable that are not mammalian at all. Also, have you seen banana ball pythons? They be cute as hell haha
With the chicken thing, it’s still kinda a weird claim. Like, chicken means coward. Being a coward is bad, but I’ve never thought that I should be violent against cowards.
actually isn't that kind of how cowardice is shown, like being afraid of bullies or fear of damage (violence) against your person or situation in some way.
My chicken bosses the cat around.....so the term is inaccurate
Nobody calls me chicken!
Using animal names to insult people is like using race name to insult people. Would you call someone a black because he is a drug dealer ? Or a jew because he is greedy ? Gay because he can't lift ? Retarded because he is not smart ?
@MdoubleHB can you back up your statements with evidence please?
I don't think "walk on broken glass" has the same meaning as "walking on eggshells" more like walking on thin ice, or walking in a minefield, I thought...
I think they all mean to tread carefully. Like if you step carefully on glass you’re less likely to cut your feet
This some SAW shit
“Walking on broken glass” implies to me that every step WILL do damage. “Walking on egg shells” implies that I need to be careful to avoid breaking the shells or else I will get hurt.
Walking on legos?🤔
yeah minefield, you are right. I started saying feed two birds with one scone because it never fails to get a laugh and it sounds pretty cool too
In French we say someone is a dog or a dirty dog to mean someone is an asshole. As dog are respected by majority of people I don’t think those animals insults mean much in the end. But I can get what peta means.
Honestly tho I think using animal names, portrayed by their behavior, to refer to people behaving similarly actually normalizing the shared qualities of humans and animals.. Calling someone a Pig, because they have an insatiable appetite shows commonality or even referring to messiness, because pigs do love rolling around in mud. I mean dogs are loyal, sloths are slow, and tigers are fierce, humans display these characteristics, why not reference the likeness.
reverse anthropomorphization! what's good for the loosey-goosey human...
@@taintmueslix Something like that. Observation of nature reminds us that we are nature, which is where humility lies.
A much better way to see things
@@Telenova. Right. If I said people were "howling like a pack of wolves" or "barking like a pissed dog" I dont think those are inherently negative or insulting to an animals natural behavior.
@@Telenova. although if the point is "insults that promote violence against animals" if an animals natural aggressive behavior counts? Take "stag fighting" or "butting heads" (deer or sheep) vs phrases that sound violent toward animals like "buckshot"?
The 'let the cat out of the bag' one is kind of dumb because the original saying doesn't refer to an actual cat, but a cat o' nine tails whip, which if I remember correctly were kept in bags on ships to punish people or something along those lines, so it doesn't really have to do with animals in the first place.
Well... As someone who has visited farms regularly, I think it's obvious some animals are dirtier than others. Neither mud nor feces smell nice and they are often mixed.
The people in this comment section have no idea
I would not have expected any less from an organization as parasitic as Peta... Is calling someone a parasite also specist?
This is getting ridiculous
How is killing animals in a survival game a weird concept? We would all try to kill something for food if he were starving out in the wild. If it's a well designed game, eating something like berries will give you less energy than meat. Meat also comes with risks, you can get damage points, because the animal attacks back, for instance... it literally simulates survival. You can even get hypothermia, you can die from food poisoning, a wild animal attack, etc. I don't think there's anything wrong with these games, it's not like you'll have an urge to become a hunter all of a sudden. And even in a vegan world, people would want to play these games because they satisfy a curiosity. There's a million games out there, just because people are curious about different experiences, and it can range from "I wonder what's it like to live in medieval times" all to "I wonder what's it like to be a garbage collector"... Or a cook, or a goose. (The goose game's really hilarious by the way.)
I get your point, but a survival game is really a bad example. Maybe cooking games would be a better one, but again, people do get curious about things they don't or can't experience.
I’m sorry but I lol’d when they said to call people COWard instead of chicken lol
OMG PETA’s overly butthurtedness really weakens the message. People will simply lump everyone together as ‘crazies’
i grew up in a neighborhood in LA that had chickens and roosters (at the time). They were "assholes" not cowards.
I mean spilt milk doesn’t have to be talking about cow milk, you could be talking about oat milk/almond milk/coconut milk etc. Because the brands that make these use the word milk in their title
Or human breast milk. Most mothers would hate to spill that.
Lol we joking say we are piggies when at home anyways.. Imagine I had to call family repulsive instead! Way worse omg haha
We call each other piggies all the time. But it's really not derogatory to us, not a sinonimus of repulsive for sure. We say it when we are eating a lot (sign of good health) or we are dirty (a sign that we are having fun)
It's always positive, pigs are wonderful animals
@@dp2404 Yes totlly its for fun and not at all as bad as the word repulsive because we love piggies and eachother! 🙏
Wait a minute. Word coward has cow in it. That's speciesist.
PETA doesn’t know snakes. Snakes aren’t social unless you mean harder snakes. My snake could care less about anything. He just wants food.
I don't think killing animals for meat in video games is going to end at any point. Killing humans is also common in video games even though it's not acceptable.
Right. I'm sure there will be mor thought put into it if the games are more "sandbox" or "open world" where you CAN kill animals, but dont have to.
Peta is taking all publicity is good publicity a bit too seriously haha
All though I sort of agree with the message but it just seems sort of unimportant in the scheme of regular carnism.
The rat is used in regards to union busting. You know when they break out the giant inflatable rat they are not union friendly
If a young bull or an adult goat are trying to headbutt you it works pretty well to grab them by the horns, gives you a bit of leverage and control and you can tell what way they are going so you can move your body back or out of the way. makes it much harder from them to knock you over. If you grab a rose by the thorns you are just going to hurt yourself. City people thinking that that's equivalent! Bah!
Lol saying "coward" is animalism too 🤣
I'm vegan and always liked Animal Crossing. Before going vegan, the game even inspired me to see any animal as a friend rather than food, although it is not fish-friendly. Perhaps PETA is running out of tweet ideas.
Nook's just racist :^)
Odd way too look at the Game but you do you.
...IMO, our language is the last thing we should worry about.
Boy: But I just can't kill 'em, Dad. I just can't!
Dad: *tosses a knife-in-sheath to the boy who catches the weapon* Stop being a chicken and get us dinner.
Chicken: ...Just so we're clear, I am offended you just called me dinner. Not that you called the boy a chicken. *runs away*
Sloth and lazy is literally the same word in my language :)
"Instead of chicken, say coward"
Or, you know, maybe don't insult people? 🤣🤣
Be best.
They did suggest not insulting anyone at all at the end of the tweet, lol.
I mean, “coward” actually comes from a word meaning “tail” and is a reference to animals running with their tail tucked between their legs... seems kinda speciesist...
@MdoubleHB literally no one cares about what you have to say, bub
@MdoubleHB no.
People in the future could still enjoy video games where you kill animals. It's like people today enjoy video games where you kill people, or when there are jokes on TV and movies where people die. Like on the Three Amigos when they had to fire gunshots to make the invisible swordsman appear, and they didn't realize that the gun was pointed where the invisible swordsman was standing. If that really happened, it wouldn't be funny at all but since it's fiction we can find it funny.
And what about games where you're literally playing as an animal? Plently of games you play as wild animals to hunt, or anthropomorphic animals that commit atrocities on fellow animals just like humans.
One of my vegan friends says “two birds one seed” instead of “two birds one stone” and I just think that’s nice. :)
That just sounds like watching two birds kill each other over food though...
It is nice. They can share the seed.
@@kaleidoscopeeyes1184 and then they will starve because one seed is not enough T_T how about two seed with one bird? He eats them both and is a bit less hungry
@@vogelchenzwitschert8754 Two seeds one bird works too. But the bird could get a tummy ache. They're tiny,
no thats just fucking dumb idiot
Considering animals don’t speak our language peta needs to find something that actually helps the animals 🤦♀️
Mayb we can think of a way to inspire people to think of animals as beings and not food 🤷♀️
It's not about animals taking offence but about humans taking on board the implicit message that animals either property, pets or pests.
The fact of the matter is that animals Are dirty, but that doesn't mean that they deserve to die. If anything, knowing that animals are dirty makes me less motivated to eat them. I'm not vegan, but I avoid meat whenever I can.
Wait what why "let the cat out of the bag" is bad? You are helping the cat. You are releasing it from a bag. What
yeah but it's like "i'm sorry i let the cat out of the bag" or "oh my god Susan let the cat out of the bag and now the surprise is ruined" so it's used in negative contexts as if it is bad to set cats free, which it isn't FREE ALL CATS
@@therabbithat 🙄
Thanks in large part to your videos I finally started the transition from vegetarian to vegan. It’s going pretty well! Thanks.
I always thought "on a wild goose chase" meant you are acting like the wild goose chasing someone.
I assumed it meant geese were hard to catch cause they were good hiders, or fast etc
as a Canadian who has had many encounters with geese, I can confirm that if you mess with them they WILL come for you and it's terrifying
I believe it’s like a hound and horse hunting reference
@@HelloKittysFriend418 Oh yes! There used to be a couple of geese (not Canadian, but I have encountered those geese too) living in our street here (village, rural Croatia), and they were very territorial. I would always try to avoid them. They're big!
I had to look that one up. Any time I've seen geese as part of a chase, the geese were doing the chasing. Turns out, it was actually a 16th century horse race, where the horses followed a lead horse on an erratic course, like geese in formation. The phrase "wild-goose chase" in a literary setting first appeared in Romeo and Juliet.
a wild goose chase could just be you chasing your pet goose that got out
But wouldn't a pet goose be a domesticated goose and not wild? A domesticated goose chase... Or maybe it's the chase that is wild and not the goose, I don't know
In Portuguese, gato or gata, which means cat, is used to describe a beautiful, handsome or hot person. Maybe we can keep that?
Yea I don’t subscribe to radical agendas.. they can get bent
Rat was a rat fink or narc and used that way in older movies. "You dirty rat" used by actors as gangsters like James Cagney. Then it referred to the austere persona of cool but coolness as cold calculating rat pack in reference to criminal activity and violence of mobsters toward narcs. And cool like putting them on ice. Being cool or hip which my parents said came from hippies could be questionable words. And words my parents questioned me about. Pigs love dirt and that is the question whether someone is a pig. Kids used to love making mud pies. Piggy also refer to toes and smell but also the nursery rhyme references behavior possibly gluttony a roast and none also and maybe money like a sow ear purse crying (with no money all the way home?) baby toe like a baby piggy squealing. But if one went to Market and the other stayef home and 1 had a whole roast and the other one none; who was the one crying all the way home? Did the pig that stayed home eat or did the pig that went to Market eat? Maybe the pig with money stayed home and the one sent to Market didn't get to eat regularly cried coming home from the market? It is a riddle. If you lie down with dogs you get fleas. Would you throw pearls to swine. I think cartoons have used animals as characters in a way relatable to people. Not all animal cartoon characters fall into animal demeaning. I think Leghorn fog horn was a large chicken that had a little tiny Hawk that would try to eat him but it was not intimidating because the hawk was a baby and Foghorn Leghorn was a big rooster. Leg horns are about 3 1/2 ft tall. So it was comical to see this little babyhawk not intimidating the rooster in any serious way. Moana's chicken seems to have cognitive and motor skills, handicapped disability problems and she loves the chicken and protects it. The one argument you make about whether you choose a handicapped person over a dog can lead to another question of: Are babies as cognitive as adults or dogs? Wouldn't you certainly choose the baby over the dog? It reminds me of the movie Sophie's Choice set in Nazi Germany and Sophie having to choose between her son and her daughter's life. Her son was older but blond. Her daughter dark haired. What about saying don't act like a baby or a drunk or a cringey person? Not the most descriptive way to relate a point because it is still name calling. Wiled goose chase. Double entendre like Wile E coyote as cold and calculating. Here is a joke people think has little to no meaning. Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the other side. What is the other side? A belief in the afterlife. Also a double entendre.
Who CARES. It's just an expression
Using animal names to insult people is like using race name to insult people. Would you call someone a black because he is a drug dealer ? Or a jew because he is greedy ? Gay because he can't lift ? Retarded because he is not smart ?
@@veganworldorder9394 The only reason I wouldn't call someone with legitimate mental disabilities "retarded" is because they're capable of being verbally insulted. Animals are completely indifferent to our use of language. As to expressions engendering violence towards them, well, that applies to humans too. I'm not ready to give up violent metaphors for humans or animals.
@MdoubleHB wow really? This is fascinating. Can i ask some questions and learn more?
@@veganworldorder9394 yes
Instead of "two birds one stone" I'm gonna say "two vegans one lettuce" 🤔
for kill or feed. as produce such as lettuce has Listeria and e coil outbreaks EVERY YEAR. and EVERY YEAR, someone dies from these outbreaks.
I texted my bf that there was a stinky little raccoon sniffing around my porch and he responded with “trash panda” so I texted back “garbage slut”
GUYS... “rat” is used in reference to Ratatouille, coz he was sneaky as hell, hiding under that hat, making delicious soup without the others knowing.
ra ra ratatouille
sneaky as a muffin man
he hid his body under his hat
ra ra ratatouille
lover of the russian queen
he made soup without us knowing
All animals are equal in the sense that we all have the basic moral right to be respected, and to not be bred, used, or killed.
So no pets anymore?
@@googelybear 'Pets' are a tricky one, as dogs, cats, and others are trapped between two worlds. The idea of animal rights calls for us to stop breeding them for our entertainment. For the foreseeable future the main thing seems to be supporting the 'adopt don't shop' mentality and doing the best we can for them in the meantime.
How about plant? It is ok to use plants name as insults? In french we alot of insult base on fruit and veg. In english i don't kwon since it's not my native language.
Here some anyway
Patate, courge, banane (Potato, squash, banana) = stupid, clumsy
Asperge (asparagus )= body shaming tall and skinny people
X a la noix (x at nut) withou values
'turnip' - fool
@@hannahmitchell87 couch potato= lazy
Lol in German we have "Spargeltatzan" which means "Asparagus Tarzan" for teenage boys who are very tall due having growing spurts but are also strong because you know teenagers... It is not even necessarily an insult, more a description
@@vogelchenzwitschert8754 that's funny! "String bean" is a similar description in English.... Where I'm from anyway.
@@hannahmitchell87 in German we have "Bohnenstange" too. it refers to green long beans and very tall humans in a friendly teasing way. Funny how similar it is
I call my daughter "Chicken" 😅 but it's just cause she used to make chicken noises
I call my cat "little chicken" for the same reason. That and when she loafs in the middle of the floor and tucks up her front paws so you can't see them, she looks like a when a chicken lays on the ground and presses its wings to its body
That’s so cute 🥺
When you find me a chicken, pig, ass, or snake that can speak English I might think this isn't just dumb.
Calling people animals is a great use of description.
Lol. This whole thing is silly
I just think using animals as slurs is just inaccurate. The animals don't care what we call each other.
More than one way to sink a cat is disgusting!!!! I hate that expression.
Sometimes I feel like the only vegan that doesn't like pigs. They're fine, and I absolutely wouldn't want to murder and eat one, but I don't get the appeal. #CowFanclub
grunts tho
Was the volume going up and down a bit on this one towards the middle of the video
It was for me, thought it was my headphones until an ad played xD;
I can't believe this is actually real I thought it was just a fuckin meme
Is it de-animalizing to call your pet dog a garbage disposal
I call my dogs vacuums lol
It’s called poetry
Maybe survival games in general will loose some popularity just cuz there will be other more popular things at the time. But i don't believe it would be because society will become more vegan-like. Getting stranded or lost and hunting for survival in the wild is 1 of many game/story genres. Just like games where you brutally kill ppl for whatever reason is a game/story genre. NOT saying having a distaste for those kinds of games is wrong, and no one should complain. I'm just saying, i doubt survival games with hunting will fall out of favor because veganism will be common. That being said, it would be kinda interesting to be able to have a vegen style playing option in a game. Mix things up a bit why not?
I've bought her v-neck tshirt in maroon. I love it!
The “liar confirmed” part 😂😂😂
hey AV ... you deserve a present, I just dont know where to find a salt lick
Humble (originally "umble") pie is made of meat scraps. Maybe intended as positive commentary on freeganism, but probably not.
I don’t wanna sound like a person who talks like a robot like “You coward come back here now.”
Don’t say bitch!!! It’s offensive to dogs!!!
I'll be honest, most of the time I don't remember Guinea Pigs are an animal. My first thought is someone testing something.
I love your sense of humor you're so funny lol
These people need to go to the dog pound....buy a dog....name it life and then they will have one!!!!!
Think about “Hold your horses” What holds horses? Stables. It’s saying “Be Stable”
I thought it meant like reigns.
“Snakes prefer to socialize with their family members?”
.... incest? 🤔
well, how else could you socialize with a family member 🧐?
So should i stop saying i was running around like a chicken with its head cut off? Is that bad now? 🐔
Oh boy oh boy I hope she chooses my video suggestions
i agree with the geese thing. got bit several times by them. (as a child). and they will fuck you up. (i used to chase them as a child).
here comes the obnoxious ACTUALLY from the armchair linguist :)) sloth actually comes from a word that meant "slowness" like growth - growth, but it fell out of favor long ago, so the animal was named for the thing (this is a very dumbed down version of it, but something like that) In general, on this subject, I feel like I find myself not wanting to use animal names as an insult, like in my native language, rat means just a person with no moral scruples and if I find myself saying it, I think aww, no rats are cut :)
Unnatural vegan reminds me of Mayam Bialik
The "bitch" and "broad" word in comparison to wife beating isn't the best analogy. A better one would be for someone to use the word "woman" as an insult, and to suggest that this society (one in which using the word woman as an insult is nomalised) would lead to greater domestic abuse and misogyny (which I think it likely would).
Would "hippie" be a better word? (Not that _I'd_ call you by that term, but just to be on the safe side.)
The Sloth thing is so funny. I’m learning French and recently learned the word for lazy, paresseux, is also the word for the animal we call the sloth. I laughed so much. Also, I learned it from my phone offering me the emoji of the sloth while texting about my laziness in French 😂😂🦥
Y'all better stop saying these evil words. You don't wanna be offending any chickens
Please react to ThoughtSlime. I am so interested in your point of view - he makes it so confusing
“Liar confirmed” haha
Theres actually a lot of interesting research on the interaction betwee our language and our behaviour/thoughts/opinions. For example in the linguistics space, there is the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis which talks about how the language we use has a direct impact on our opinions and perspectives (there should be lots of articles/experiments about this!) and in the behaviour analytic world there is decades of research discussing "private events" such as internal thoughts, rules and language, and how this impacts our external behaviour.
I am in no way agreeing with PETA here - just think the intersection between language and our perspectives & behaviour is very interesting, and relevant to many vegan conversations! Stephen Pinker has a lot of interesting books/articles/talks regarding language and its relationship with cognition and behaviour too.
References (using colour discrimination and race as an example):
He, Hu, Li, Jie, Xiao, Qianguo, Jiang, Songxiu, Yang, Yisheng, & Zhi, Sheng. (2019). Language and Color Perception: Evidence From Mongolian and Chinese Speakers. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 551.
Arhin, A., & Thyer, B. A. (2004). The causes of racial prejudice: A behavior analytic perspective. In J. L. Chin (Ed.), The psychology of racial prejudice and discrimination, Racism in America (Vol. I, pp. 1-19). Westport, CT: Praeger.
Briggs, H. E., & Paulson, R. I. (1996). Racism. In M. A. Mattaini & B. A. Thyer (Eds.), Finding solutions to social problems: Behavioral strategies for change (pp. 147-177). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
If you’re ever headed to Norfolk Va to shit on PETA let me know.
Haha this was fun! I enjoyed this 😊
*calls my dog her name* she smiles. *calls my dog a bitch* She smiles. Animals DONT have spoken language. How is it hurting them?
IT'S NOT.
2:57
ayyyyyyyyy 😂😂
Could you pls make a video on yo-yo dieting?
Completely out of topic but:
"I had a crush on the kangaroo guy"
- Swayze 2021
1:20
vegan gains be like:
Haha lol, I sometimes call my relatives out for using animals as insults, just for fun, but I also use certain human names as insults😂😂 how does that describe my character
Wait... humans can find their way home?
Not my dad!
Interesting...I’ve never given it a second thought. Sometimes I don’t agree with PETA, but this one kind of rings true. Idk.
I think female dog when someone says bitch, but my life is centered around dogs 😂 also, how did chicken end up being coward? They move out of your way, not because they're scared, but because they're smart. They know that spot isn't worth it anymore after we've stepped on it 😂 I don't think I've ever seen a scared hen 😂
People need to stop policing how other people want to use the english language ffs
Isn't PETA's whole thing just Peter Singer's stance taken to its logical end? Like, based on their beliefs, of course this tweet makes sense. Like this is straight out of Animal Liberation. Not saying Singer is right at all, but PETA seems to be consistently in support of his views, possibly a bit more Arne Næss-ian
Ok. Can't say this enough, but Peter Singer's argument is literally that the ethical distinction between races is the same as the ethical distinction between species: complete arbitrary. PETA's whole thing is this argument. Like. They aren't making false equivalences unless we argue against Singer, and he's super wrong. Might want to mention Singer to the audience to AT THE MINIMUM actually show where PETA is coming from.
The one animal word association I hate is calling people “sheep”.
Not because I find the “supremacist language” offensive, but because it’s so tired and overused, just when someone disagrees with the name-caller.
Also, because I come from the Faroe Islands, which is hypothesized to literally mean “sheep islands”, so I know more about sheep than the average person. 😂 The only legal sheep on the islands is the native breed, and it has almost no flocking instinct. It has been naturally bred out of them, because they have no natural predators there and because of scarcity of food in the area, so the flock spreads out for them to graze alone, or in small family groups.
That's pretty interesting about the sheep on the faroe islands! I've been thinking about the sheep insult thing a lot lately. I'm a Christian, and Jesus uses a lot of sheep parables in the Bible. I always find it funny when anti-vaxxers on Facebook who call themselves Christians call people sheep as an insult 😂
But that's such an unusual situation. Sheep normally flock together. Hence, the insult being the accusation of going along with the crowd. It's a fitting expression. An overused one, yes. But still fitting.
Hey this isn't really a vegan thing but would like a video on celebrating gender reveal parties seems to be a big thing and some are with it and some really hate it interested to see your perspective warning it will be a bit controversial of a video for you to produce eaither way
Great video. I agree that some of those are worse than others. pig always kind of bothered me because I love them and know that like you said the stereotypes aren't really true. I never really liked sloth either but I use chicken and snake still. Also being sly is not necessarily a bad thing I always took it to mean foxes are clever.
Swayze your argument at the beginning, and 1:15 specifically, makes no sense. Thinking other animals are as important as humans obviously doesn't mean that you would let a billion humans die instead of a worm. I'm pretty sure you think all humans have the same value but that doesn't mean you'd let a billion humans die instead of one human.
To the larger argument, if you believe animals are not as valuable as humans based on their lower levels of sentience, intelligence, etc then how do you get around devaluing a huge percentage of humans? Not everyone has the same level of those qualities. Your kids for instance apparently aren't worth as much as most other humans based on your argument.