On Mon, 12 Apr 2021 12:08:40 +0100, Another Dave
wrote:

On 12/04/2021 11:59, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Pig (Nordic) Swine(Germanic) and Pork (Romance/French) shows us the real
value of being able to say the same thing in a common vulgar way, and
unpleasant way, and a upper class Norman, toff, sort of way..


I think it's totally appropriate that we use German words for the animal
(cow, pig etc) for the animal and French for the food (beef, pork etc).

The latter being better for maintaining the cognitive dissonance when
people are buying a nicely presented and comodified chunk of flesh in
a packet from the supermarket.

The labels on said packets may show a 'happy pig' standing in a field
(that most pigs never see of course), not the unhappy pig thrashing
about, desperately trying to survive in the gas chamber or having it's
throat cut.

They don't (or choose not to) consider that all 'pork' (/bacon) has to
come from individual, intelligent, social, trusting pigs.

If only all the words used around this whole 'industry' of animal
suffering, death and exploitation where more honest ...

Cheers, T i m