Verbal Vivisection: How Euphemisms, Oxymorons, and Doublespeak Disguise Our Violence Against Animals

Food for Thought: The Joys and Benefits of Living Vegan

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2013

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

I love language, and I advocate being thoughtful about the words we use – not in a way that is derisively called “politically correct” but in a way that reflects the truth and doesn’t hide it. I advocate using language that celebrates animals rather than denigrates them. I urge people to use language that says what we mean. Join me today as I talk about doublespeak, euphemisms, jargon, antonyms, oxymoron, semantics, lexical blindfolds, and other elements of language that conceal the truth in order to make us feel better about the horrific things we do to animals. I believe that as long as our violent treatment of animals stays hidden linguistically, our attitudes towards animals are unlikely to change, and they will continue to suffer. But if we choose words that promote compassion and speak truth, we can literally change the way we think about and thus treat animals. It just takes a little practice and awareness.

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0:16.7	Welcome to Food for Thought. My name is Colleen Patrick Gudrome. I'm an author and educator dedicated to empowering people to make informed food choices, to debunking myths about veganism, to being a voice for animals, and to giving people the tools and resources
0:22.2	they need to live according to their own values of compassion and wellness.
0:27.5	I'm the author of The Joy of vegan Baking, The Vegan Table, Color Me Vegan,
0:31.8	Vegan's Daily Companion, and my newest book on vegan and I would be honored if you would read it, let others know about it and review it
0:48.6	on online bookstores and on Goodreads, Goodreads, tweet about it, Facebook about it, etc.
0:55.0	On Being Vegan Reflections on a Compassionate Life.
0:59.0	Also, I'm the creator and host of the 30-Day Vegan Challenge,
1:02.0	which gives you everything you need to make the transition healthy. Creator and
1:05.0	creator and host of the 30-day vegan challenge, which gives you everything you need to make the transition healthfully, joyfully,
1:06.6	deliciously, and confidently.
1:09.0	And yes, if you're already vegan, you will get a ton out of it as well you can gift it to the
1:14.4	veg curious in your life check out 30-day vegan challenge dot com we just added a
1:19.4	new premium level so check out my new video on the subject under program details and
1:26.8	spread the word. That's what it's there for and speaking of spreading the word,
1:31.2	I need to ask you all a favor. I'm working on some pretty big projects right now.
1:35.6	Namely another book, as well as a television show that I promise I'll tell you about as soon as I can.
1:41.8	What I need from you is your written support, i.e. if you've ever thought
1:46.0	about writing a review of any of my books or the podcast and you haven't yet, I'm urging you to do so now.
1:52.1	Producers and publishers look at these things and if you could please just go over to Amazon review any and all of my books.
1:59.0	Obviously they're interested in favorable reviews so if you don't want to leave a favorable review please don't leave one at all and of course go to iTunes and you can
2:07.8	write a review of the podcast that would be so fantastic and if you're not
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