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The Term 'Pet' Is An Insult To Animals: Academics Say



Leading academics have called for pets to be renamed “companion animals”, thus giving a whole new meaning to animal rights

Rather than being a term of endearment, the term “pets” is an insult to the concerned animals and their owners, who should be known as “human carers”.



A new journal devoted to animal ethics, also want the terms “pests” and “vermin” to be dropped. Wild animals, meanwhile, should be referred to as “free-living” or “free-ranging”.

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Although the changes are mainly aimed at those contributing articles to the journal, it is hoped the message will influence how other people view their pets.

In the editorial, Reverend Prof Andrew Linzey, an Oxford theologian who has written or edited 20 books and US philosopher Prof Priscilla Cohn call for a major rethink of animal terminology.

“Despite its prevalence, ‘pets’ is surely a derogatory term both of the animals concerned and their human carers. Again the word ‘owners’, while technically correct in law, harks back to a previous age when animals were regarded as … property, machines or things to use without moral constraint.”



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i hope grammarians won't go as far as giving an opinion on how we name our "animal companion" of a dog who used to be "free-living" until we took him in.  please don't force me to name him as the junior to the banana republic's senior.

i may have problems calling them; one may sneeze and the other may bark, and who knows what will happen to the state of my hearing and i can no longer tell them apart?  or the state of my vision, for that matter?

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