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So most of us are pretty comfortable with the word meat. We hear it all the time and for most people it's not a loaded

word. For me, however, it is. I struggle with using that word because the

word meat basically refers to the cut-up pieces of a once-living animal, and it very effectively

reduces animals to inanimate objects both in reality and by the use of our language.

So most people don't think about it that way though, and don't have a problem using the word meat because the animal is literally

removed from that word. There's a real disassociation. However, if I were to use a word

like flesh, which is what meat is, or if I were to use the word

corpse, which is what it is, or carcass, which is what it is, I could be accused of being offensive or militant or in your face.

Even if I used the word dead animal, which let's face it folks, it's definitely what it is.

I might be accused of being insensitive. What if I said

body parts? Same thing, right? Many of the words we use to refer to animals body

parts are equally innocuous for most such as pork or bacon or

sausage beef steak loin flank

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