From: utzoo!decvax!watmath!pcmcgeer Newsgroups: net.misc Title: Re: Psychological distance Article-I.D.: watmath.2744 Posted: Sat Jun 19 23:29:32 1982 Received: Mon Jun 21 05:27:54 1982 References: yale-com.604 As an observation, I find that it is usually the case that the name of an animal and its meat are the same - as in lamb (surely you've heard the expression ewe lamb), any fish, any poultry, and some meats. In fact, the only animals for which this is not the case are pigs and cows, whose meat is served in so many different ways that it would surely be confusing to refer to each distinct cut as cow or pig. The point, of course, is that there probabaly isn't any psychological distance involved - the separate names just evolved for convenience. So pass the pig. ~v