Academic claims phrases like 'bring home the bacon' will go out of fashion to avoid offending vegans

Please tell me this is an early April Fool (although presumably that phrase will soon be banned too):

'She said: 'The image of 'killing two birds with one stone' is, if anything, made more powerful by the animal-friendly alternative of 'feeding two birds with one scone'.'

Peta also wants to replace the phrase 'to flog a dead horse' with 'to feed a fed horse'. '

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