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