[ SHOWGSD-L ] OT More stupidity from the "other" front

From: Stormy Hope <Stormy435@xxxxxxx>
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Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 16:13:51 -0700
Rats are merely "free living?"
Read more: 
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1381136/Calling-animals-pets-insulting-Should-companions-claim-animal-rights-academics.html#ixzz1KqqLQVMw


Pets should be renamed 'companions', claim animal rights academics  
(and rats are just 'free living')

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Last updated at 1:11 PM on 28th April 2011
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Animals should not be described as 'vermin', 'pests' or even 'pets',  
animal ethicists have decided.
Academics say that traditional words used to characterise animals like  
'beasts' and 'critters' are derogatory and should be replaced.
They say words like 'pests' and 'vermin' should be dropped altogether,  
and 'pets' replaced by 'companion animals'.

'Free ranging animal': Rats should not be called vermin because the  
term is derogatory, according to the editors of the Journal of Animal  
Ethics
'Wild animals' should be termed 'free living or free ranging animals'  
they argue, because 'wildness' is too close to 'uncivilised'.
The call for a new 'animal language' has been made by the editors of a  
new academic journal, the Journal of Animal Ethics, published this  
month for the first time by the University of Illinois Press.

A GUIDE TO THE WORDS THAT ARE IN AND OUT
OUT
Vermin
Pests
Pets
Wild
Owners

IN
Free living
Free ranging
Free 
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