Annals of hypallage, food-source division. In a 1/30/17 New Yorker cartoon by P.C. Vey:
Contemplating the nightmare that bedevils animal rights activists: force-feeding creatures to prepare them for human consumption.
(Vey now has his own Page on this blog.)
On force-feeding, from Wikipedia:
Force-feeding is the practice of feeding a human or other animal against their will.
… Force-feeding is also known as gavage, from a French word meaning “to gorge”. This term specifically refers to force-feeding of ducks or geese [with a grain mash] in order to fatten their livers in the production of foie gras.
And then food-source hypallage (like grass-fed beef: it’s the cattle that are fed grass, not the beef from the cattle), as in a section of my 12/6/18 posting “O happy day! Annals of hypallage 2018”.
December 10, 2018 at 6:45 pm |
Ah, but a beef is a (male or female) cow, considered as a source of meat. They do not become beeves only once butchered.
And, of course, gavage, or whatever it is the questioner has in mind, is hardly practical with grass.