I fully agree with you Charlie! I can't stand the term "game" to "describe" a bird or an animal as it makes them sound like targets for shooting for sick so called "fun"! It is hunter terminology as far as I am concerned and it normalises the birds/animals being killed. "Culling" is literally no different to hunting and "tradition" was once often used to excuse anything from vile bear baiting to denying women the chance to do anything that was once viewed as "non traditional". As for "vermin", the one and only species I consider as "vermin" are evil human beings! 3 sayings I really wish were replaced as well are "like a/the guinea pig" (making cruel "experiments" on guinea pigs seem fine and normal), "kill 2 birds with one stone" and "stone the crows" (they both normalise killing and cruelty to birds). Why not instead say "like a/the test tube", "stone the walls" and "feed 2 birds with 1 scone" instead?
I fully agree with you Charlie! I can't stand the term "game" to "describe" a bird or an animal as it makes them sound like targets for shooting for sick so called "fun"! It is hunter terminology as far as I am concerned and it normalises the birds/animals being killed. "Culling" is literally no different to hunting and "tradition" was once often used to excuse anything from vile bear baiting to denying women the chance to do anything that was once viewed as "non traditional". As for "vermin", the one and only species I consider as "vermin" are evil human beings! 3 sayings I really wish were replaced as well are "like a/the guinea pig" (making cruel "experiments" on guinea pigs seem fine and normal), "kill 2 birds with one stone" and "stone the crows" (they both normalise killing and cruelty to birds). Why not instead say "like a/the test tube", "stone the walls" and "feed 2 birds with 1 scone" instead?
Thank you Cara. Never really know how posts like this will go down, so always welcome feedback (good or bad!). Cheers
You are most welcome Charlie ❤️!
Never thought that David Beckham would kill innocent animals . Gone right off him. Dont forget you come from London !!
Do you think our cruelty has gone too far?
https://open.substack.com/pub/abforbes/p/has-our-cruelty-gone-too-far?r=yn8c0&utm_medium=ios