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  • Opinion: Another viewpoint: Trying for more animal-friendly turns of phrase

    Zachary Toliver|Updated Dec 18, 2018

    “Don’t you have bigger fish to fry?” That was the typical, not exactly enlightened, response after People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals shook up the Twitterverse with our list of animal-friendly phrases to use in place of common anti-animal idioms. For example, instead of “kill two birds with one stone,” why not try “feed two birds with one scone?” And for “don’t let the cat out of the bag,” how about “don’t spill the beans?” Although PETA has long argued for an end to anti-animal language, this issue made headlines...