“Language doesn’t merely have the effect of dehumanizing; it deanimates. It objectifies.” Those are the words of today’s guest: my friend and colleague Carol J. Adams, whose life’s work spans across many disciplines, as you’ll hear, including etymology, linguistics, feminism, and animal advocacy. Our conversation today wends through those parallel and converging paths as we explore where the animals go when we eat meat, how the word meat has changed over the centuries, the effect of “zero plurals” (stay tuned for what the heck that means), and the power of words to objectify, diminish, and dismember an individual. The power of words. Thank you for listening to and supporting Animalogy.