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Naming Them as Food, Not Someone

Severity 2FramingStep 1Step 6Step 8

Talks about cows, pigs, birds, fish as categories or food instead of individuals, misses the shift to someone like a dead human body on a plate.

The give pair

Gives ammo

Do you care about farm animals like cows and pigs?

Gives nothing

Look at her. She is someone, not something: a mother, not food. Would 'I like the taste' still work if that were a dead human body on the plate?

The round they fire back

Your own words keep animals filed under food. Say cows, pork, or farm animals and they answer about meals and taste ('I like meat'), never about someone. The category you handed them is the shield they hold.

How to fix it

Shift from food to individuals: that mother, that child, that someone. Like seeing a dead human body on your plate, personal, not abstract categories.

Coaching notes

  • Highlight individuality and personality, not birds, fish, cows as groups.
  • Pair with your victims language on screen.
  • The flaw is letting animals exist as a category of food at all. The moment you argue inside their menu (cows, pork, meat) you have accepted the filing system; the reframe is one individual at a time.

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