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French Butchers Protect Their Image
PARIS (AP) -- People who cut meat for a living in France say they're getting a raw deal from journalists who insist on describing killers as ``butchers.'' So they've got a request:
Stop bloodying our image.
The butcher ``has nothing to do with executioners or torturers,'' the French Confederation of Butchers, Pork Butchers and Caterers says.
They outlined their biggest beefs in a statement Tuesday titled ``From Algiers to Luxor'' -- a reference to recent massacres in Algeria and Egypt in which the killers used knives to do away with some of their victims.
The butchers conceded that the word ``butcher'' has figurative flair. But they questioned the appropriateness of an image that ``systematically wounds an innocent profession'' with a ``welcoming image and nourishing function.''
The butchers suggest journalists ``who run out of words'' try adjectives such as ``cruel'' or ``barbaric,'' ``ferocious'' or ``savage'' to describe people who misuse the tools of their trade.
For ``butchery,'' the group suggested words like ``carnage,'' ``killings'' or ``massacre.''
``The butcher distributes meat that people share with wine and bread,'' the confederation noted. ``His role evokes peace and brotherhood.''
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 00:32:59 -0500
From: allen schubert <ar-admin@envirolink.org>
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: (US) The Making Of The Presidential Turkey, 1997