PETA Wants To Stop Anti-Animal Language So Everyone’s Roasting Them

PETA took to Twitter today in an attempt to redirect the general public’s disposition toward “anti-animal language” by posting a list of popular phrases and idioms that we should be substituting with less speciest verbiage.

Words matter, and as our understanding of social justice evolves, our language evolves along with it. Here’s how to remove speciesism from your daily conversations. pic.twitter.com/o67EbBA7H4

— PETA: Bringing Home the Bagels Since 1980 (@peta) December 4, 2018

The tweet did numbers, largely because bringing home the bagels is objectively funny, and also because in the grand scheme of human history – people don’t really like being told what to say. So instead of obeying PETA, here’s a bunch of people who just decided to make fun of them instead.

You never said anything about saying that now you did you animal nerds

Wow y’all really screwed the pooch on this one. https://t.co/ErtHvomPd9

— Kyle Ayers (@kyleayers) December 5, 2018

Is this what you wanted?

Dear PETA, took your advice to "feed a fed horse" & "take the flower by the thorns" and now my hands are bleeding and the horse just exploded.

— Mike Leffingwell (@mikeleffingwell) December 6, 2018

He came to this country with Everything

my father was a bagel pic.twitter.com/3pkl7dxIwm

— broti gupta (@BrotiGupta) December 5, 2018

Ok now this is epic

Words matter, and as our understanding of social justice evolves, our language evolves along with it. Here’s how to remove gamerism from your daily conversations. pic.twitter.com/dAU7dC8IXH

— Dr Grandayy (@grandayy) December 5, 2018

Christmas Christmas!

Stop using anti-Christmas language pic.twitter.com/Yn8ulPcy4q

— jacksfilms (@jacksfilms) December 5, 2018

This is it chief

What did he ever do to you

Please. pic.twitter.com/Pipxn9bEJg

— Stokely Hathaway (@StokelyHathaway) December 5, 2018

…

Aww hug the books

Just as it became unacceptable to use racist, homophobic, or ableist language, phrases that trivialise cruelty to books will vanish as more people appreciate books for what they are. pic.twitter.com/PDDdmgyO8o

— WaterstonesTCR (@WaterstonesTCR) December 5, 2018

Thanos Did Nothing Wrong

I only drink Shelf Turds™

I practice bird law and this all checks out

pic.twitter.com/RYGGivXoQg

— birdsrightsactivist (@ProBirdRights) December 5, 2018

May your bumbles always be blessed

Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise?

This is what we should really be focusing on. Stop using anti-Prequel language. pic.twitter.com/JFfIVFWyJk

— Cameron Kasky (@cameron_kasky) December 6, 2018