Animal activist group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has drawn ridicule for taking the social justice fight to animal idioms it says are “anti-animal” and “speciesist.”
“Just as it became unacceptable to use racist, homophobic, or ableist language, phrases that trivialize cruelty to animals will vanish as more people begin to appreciate animals for who they are and start ‘bringing home the bagels’ instead of ’the bacon,'” PETA wrote on Twitter on Dec. 4.
