Language is alive. It grows, shrinks, twists, and reforms itself depending on who uses it and why. But sometimes, a word’s journey tells us more about power and politics than about grammar. The word meat is one of those words — and its history reveals just how absurd Europe’s attempts to police vegan language really are. Let’s take it back to the beginning. 📜 The Real History of Meat For most of English history, meat didn’t mean animal flesh at all. In Old English, the word was mete, and it simply meant food — any food. Bread was meat. Fruit…