It's a bit more than that. I'm a vegetarian, so obviously I have a bias, but I think it's objectively true that the beef industry in America is in a pretty bad place. I consider it "horrific", personally, though reasonable people disagree.
Would "veal" be an acceptable name?
When I think of eating beef in 2020, I think of a person whose freedom to eat whatever pleases them is more important than human health, suffering of intelligent animals and the environment.
Allow me a bad analogy. If I interviewed someone for a senior engineering role but they went out of their way to mention that they had named one of their children "Stalin" -- that would be kind of a red flag for me.
So to me, naming your pet project "Beef" is kind-of tone deaf at best.
And at worst, it's thumbing your nose at political correctness: "Haha I named my project Beef because beef is great and fine and if you disagree you're thin-skinned and blindly following the crowd."
I think the issue is a lot more complicated than that.
I'm Vegan and the name doesn't bother me at all to be honest. I do not agree with the downvoting of parent though, as his reasoning is er.. reasonable.
Is it? Was the question about how acceptable would "veal" be as a name implying that it would not be acceptable at all? What about “lamb”? Or “pork”? (PORK is the long-awaited Well-Done BEEF, according to https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/ozone/www/object-syste...)
Would "veal" be an acceptable name?
When I think of eating beef in 2020, I think of a person whose freedom to eat whatever pleases them is more important than human health, suffering of intelligent animals and the environment.
Allow me a bad analogy. If I interviewed someone for a senior engineering role but they went out of their way to mention that they had named one of their children "Stalin" -- that would be kind of a red flag for me.
So to me, naming your pet project "Beef" is kind-of tone deaf at best.
And at worst, it's thumbing your nose at political correctness: "Haha I named my project Beef because beef is great and fine and if you disagree you're thin-skinned and blindly following the crowd."
I think the issue is a lot more complicated than that.
Just my admittedly-biased two cents.