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Wait, so I get to talk and cuddle a bunch of chickens, cows, and pigs?
That doesn’t sound so bad.
I’d be happy to make amends with them. I’d love to see what they’d have to say about the industrial food complex.

The thing about asking forgiveness and making amends that people tend to forget is that you have to actually regret it. If you're just like "sorry I killed you, but you were delicious!" you're not really making amends.

I've got a friend trying desperately to teach their toddler that biting someone while apologizing for biting them doesn't prevent them from getting in trouble.

That toddler is ripe to join the political class!

there's an elephant in the room

I taught my two-year-old to say sorry, but he says it in the most sassy and amused way possible.

He sure killed a lot of animals.

Oh no, just imagine the black cloud of mosquitos

I don't recall us accidentally eating them, or vice-versa?

Bonus pts for the upcoming Screw-worm epidemic...

Automatically, based on how we normalize and produce all that.

Do you think the Vietnamese guy was eaten?

Do I get to kill the ants a second time?

Fuckin hate ants, always tryin eat my hair

I'm sure the local pigherder thinks I'm crazy but I love meeting their piglets. Then I go get a nice breakfast with extra bacon. It's like getting sushi after visiting the aquarium.

Probably Japanese considering the bow

Yeah, so did you and every living person. Most don't kill by their own hand but absolutely through their lifestyle (eating meat, using anything with animal products in it, anything that affects the habitat of any animal etc.).

I mean, was he a butcher or something?

Hard to say considering the amount of East Asian people the USA shot at.

Ah, right, christianity and their sinner by extension shtick.

Don't get me wrong; you should eat less meat. For your own and the planets health.

Do we have to make peace with each bacteria individually or can we do it collectively?

So was he like a rancher or a slaughterhouse worker after the war?

He didn't have to get his hands dirty. Others did it for him, aided by plenty of automation, breeding, and cruel farming systems.

Then why is there only one human there?
What about the thousands of people who have died working in unsafe and unclean conditions to produce clothing, electronics, and the like for first world countries? I’m vicariously guilty for the deaths related to every burger I’ve eaten, but not for the iPhone I’m typing this on?

He must've been a farmer and a prolific hunter.

Now I need to know if viruses also count. They're not quite alive. Or are they?

Why are you saying "you" and not "we?" Are you somehow exempt from all this? I notice you're saying "their" and not "our." Why are you distancing yourself (even when you acknowledged "every living person")? This kind of divisiveness does not help sway people over. We need to work as teams, not opponents, to enact healthy societal change.

Soo, is the point of the comic veganism or was he a really efficent hunter?

Because if it's veganism...where the fuck are the people that got exploited to make your phone, your clothing etc etc?
Cut this crap please

Plants?

Our own cells?

You seem to be taking things pretty hard for some reason. This is just a piece of dark humor, and maybe a thought-experiment / point of reflection. Nobody is trying to lay a guilt-trip on you, AFAIK.

I like to believe this is implying he also ate that guy

Like that worst timeline Marvel story where Captain America introduced Nick Fury to the sweet sweet taste of long pork during Vietnam?

Honestly, more people should meet their meat like this.

I've already made peace with the lives I've taken and will take to secure my own survival. Talk to any of those pigs and they'd do the same thing.

Or the wasp nest we wiped out

Think it's meant to be some comment on eating meat.

Considering there is a whole swarm of flies/mosquitoes I think the comic is deeper than just another one of those mischievous veganism posts.

Man, he was a hell of a hunter but a pretty sub par soldier from the looks of that line.

There’s an elephant in the background. Most likely he was a poacher I guess

If you zoom in far enough, they're in the comic, too.

Well now you're just lying.

How do you figure..?

Soooo many ants. I think I took out a multi-queen colony of crazy ants last month, immediately followed by a second colony that moved in fast enough for some scouts to follow the trails left by the first one.

I was gonna reply with a joke, but this punchline of yours felt different. So, I looked it up, and holy shit, ants will just fucking abscond with your hair.

On the one hand, it's not personal. They don't know your hair from a leaf on the ground. All they know is that your hair is especially delicious and they wanna get all up in there.

On the other hand, if ants started chopping and hauling my hair like some sort of tiny logging expedition, I'd probably wanna double-kill them, too

It's more that I'm farsighted and can't see ants (not even with glasses, those ant nerds) unless they're the big fuckers. I have sat in so many ant trails because I could not see them.

One summer, during the week that you stay home alone when you're 14 as a rite of passage to prove that you won't die when left to your own devices, the ants attacked a cupboard that had no food (I thought). The cupboard with all the bowls and plates and cups and apparently ants that week. Well okay first they attacked the pantry. Then they attacked the bowls. Then they went after the sink and cleaning supplies. In retrospect I would not be surprised if my shitass brother mixed some bouillon in with the bleach.
I ended up having to clean the kitchen from top to bottom four days in a row. Including the fridge at one point, I was not leaving anything to chance after attack number 3.
I wasn't going to cook and eat anything from a freshly poisoned kitchen, so I kept getting pizza instead of getting to try new recipes like I wanted.
I'm not sure it would be heaven without the opportunity to extinct me some ants. And then do it three or four more times to the same, reincarnated ants. I think my part of heaven is the baggage closet.