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I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
—Henry David Thoreau
metonymy
A figure of speech in which one word is substituted for another with which it is closely associated. For example, in the expression The pen is mightier than the sword, the word pen is used for "the written word," and sword is used for "military power."