Animal-Related Expressions: Choosing Compassionate Cliches Over Violent Idioms
Food for Thought: The Joys and Benefits of Living Vegan
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Today I examine how our use of common idioms and proverbs denigrates animals and contributes to our violence against them — and offer some compassionate versions to replace the more violent ones.
Every time we open our mouths, we have the opportunity to reflect kindness and compassion; or we have the potential to reflect violence.
My hope is that we aspire to the former.
----
Support this podcast today at Patreon.com/ColleenPatrickGoudreau
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Food for Thought Podcast, giving you the tools and resources you need to live |
| 0:22.4 | according to your values of compassion and wellness, joyfully, healthfully, deliciously, and sustainably. |
| 0:30.1 | Today's episode is Compassionate, Cleashays. Before we begin, my name is Colleen Patrick |
| 0:36.3 | Adro. You can find me at JoyfulVegan.com and on social media. You can find my books wherever |
| 0:42.3 | books are sold and you can join me in my online cooking classes. You can visit JoyfulVeganTrips.com |
| 0:48.5 | to see the amazing trips I'm thrilled to host with my partners, World Vegan Travel. And please |
| 0:54.2 | remember this podcast is 100% listener supported. So if it's something you value, please join other |
| 1:00.0 | supporters by going to patreon.com slash Colleen Patrick Adro. Thank you in advance. And as I work |
| 1:07.5 | on new episodes, I thought you would enjoy this episode from the Archives. Enjoy. |
| 1:14.6 | So I am very excited about today's topic. I've been wanting to do this topic for a long time, |
| 1:20.1 | and it is quite daunting, and because it is daunting and so huge, I will actually break it up into |
| 1:25.6 | several parts and just continue doing it over the course of time. I've been threatening to do |
| 1:30.6 | this topic for over a year now, and I hope you appreciate it as much as I do. I hope you appreciate |
| 1:36.8 | the topic itself as much as I do. So what I want to do is examine how our use of language denigrates |
| 1:43.6 | animals and contributes to our violence against them. And if you're skeptical about the idea that |
| 1:50.5 | our use of words and our use of language could actually contribute to violence against anybody, |
| 1:57.2 | I just encourage you to stick around and hear what I have to say about it. Through our use of |
| 2:02.9 | animal-based idioms and proverbs, we commit violence against animals without even realizing it, |
| 2:09.6 | without even thinking about it, without even being aware of it. Or perhaps if we are aware, |
| 2:15.5 | we just think that our use of certain words or phrases are innocuous, or we just think of those |
| 2:21.0 | our use of words and phrases as harmless or neutral. But I disagree, and I disagree vehemently, |
| 2:28.5 | a culture's language reflects the values of that society, and our shared use of that language |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Colleen Patrick-Goudreau, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Colleen Patrick-Goudreau and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.