Gretchen Primack
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Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics.
—Peter Singer 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."
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