humanewash英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

动词 v.

To engage in the humaneness (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 says that companies use humanewashing to deceive consumers who care about animal rights, leading them to believe animals were raised according to their expectations of humane treatment even when they were not.

词形变化

humanewashes present,singular,third-person humanewashing participle,present humanewashed participle,past humanewashed past

词源

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.