Oct 11, 2012
I believe that change
will occur for animals only as we change their status, and one
thing we need to change is the way we talk about
them. Every word we choose
can contribute to upholding the existing paradigm that sees animals
as ours to hurt, ours to eat, ours to kill, ours to use, as ours to
do with whatever we please. OR we can choose words that
reflect a new compassionate paragigm: one that sees animals
as ours to share this planet with – not as subjects of ours but as
co-habitants, as fellow Earthlings. We can shift that paradigm
everytime we open our mouths to speak.
Join me on an
etymological journey that demonstrates that how we talk about
animals can liberate THEM and US from our violence against
them.