Bloom County by Berkeley Breathed for July 15, 2012

Very ethnocentric. Some (non-American) cultures have no problem with killing and eating sea mammals (as well as land mammals).

As an American living in Japan, I’ve always enjoyed whale, but I do draw the line at dolphins.

I saw this billboard in Canada;“There’s plenty of room for all of the animals of the earth, Right on the plate next to the mashed potatoes!”

If God didn’t want us to eat cows, he wouldn’t jhave made them so delicious! Dr. Stephen P. Colbert, DFA

Drifting off on the philosophical side for a moment, it isn’t the killing of animals that is morally questionable, it’s our detachment from it.

Would like to try dolphin some time (who knows, maybe I have in my tuna!).

@kittenpah – this is where I’m such a hypocrite: cannot detach from killing an animal and generally refuse to do it (except for humane porpoises [sic]), but have no moral problem eating that meat.

Actually, the sentiment that is being expressed is a bit dated – in the quarter century or so since this first came out, the treatment of farm animals has gotten much worse, most small farmers have been driven out of business by megacorporations, and the environmental consequences of the factory farm have gotten far worse. If the farm animals were treated like animals and not commodities and if the farming processes were sustainable, then I’d say eating reasonable portions of meat each week would be OK. But once I started reading about the way farm animals are raised these days, I couldn’t bring myself to eat animal products any more – to do so would be to pay megacorporatoins to abuse animals, destroy watersheds, drive small farmers out of business, and create environments that promote antibiotic-resistant viruses and that could well be the starting point for the next global pandemic.

Dolphin fish is fine.

If you throw a dinner party, how would you know that a guest is a vegetarian?

Don’t worry; he’ll freaking tell you.

Feed that doofus some bacon. That’ll shut him up.