humanewash
humanewash verb: to engage in the animal welfare analogue of greenwashing.
Verb
humanewash (third-person singular simple present humanewashes, present participle humanewashing, simple past and past participle humanewashed)
- To engage in the animal welfare analogue of greenwashing.
- Now, a new report from the anti-factory farming group Farm Forward seeks to outline the differences between independent and industry animal welfare labels and expose what it calls “humanewashing” among both types of groups. Like the now widely recognized practice of “greenwashing,” Farm Forward...2021 January 19, Lisa Held, “Are Some Animal Welfare Labels 'Humanewashing'?”, in Civil Eats, retrieved 13 Sep 2021
Forms of humanewash
| third-person singular present | humanewashes |
|---|---|
| present participle | humanewashing |
| past participle | humanewashed |
| past | humanewashed |
Origin of humanewash
From humane + wash, following the established pattern of greenwash, pinkwash, and similar forms (which came ultimately from the figurative-extension sense of whitewash as "to slap a paintjob over the truth to hide it and to give a specious nice appearance"); this form also rhymes with brainwash, as does sustainwash.
Questions about humanewash
- What does humanewash mean?
- Humanewash means to engage in the animal welfare analogue of greenwashing.
- What part of speech is humanewash?
- Humanewash is a verb.
- What is the past tense of humanewash?
- The past tense of humanewash is humanewashed.
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