(Political Cartoon?) When Vegans Fall Off The Wagon

UComics ^ | Oct 23, 2003 | Non-Sequitur

[JaxAx]

Eating Kosher? ay ay ay! What is this world coming to?

[in the Arena]

I like vegetarians...they taste great...

[patton]

Sure do.

[NathanR]

See, most people have taboos about food. You have one about eating dog.

I have one about eating any pet, which is why you don't make farm animls pets.

I have no problem with vegetarians, but vegans really annoy me.

[Cobra Scott]

LOL!

I know a woman named Meagan (pronounces it MAY-gun), and a couple with a daughter named Megan (MEE-gun), and goes by Mimi.

Maybe that's why some people pronounce "Vegan" differently? Some use "VEE-gun", some use "ID-ee-uht", etc :o)

[MarkL]

Why are they now called vegans?

Technically, Veganism (?) is an off-shoot of the Hindu religion. A part of it is diet, which excludes not only animals, but all animal products. However, the religion also calls for never doing harm to, or killing animals. I once saw a TV report on it, and they will refuse even "mercy killing" of an animal that is in intese pain.

Anyway, what most people in the US claim is vegan is actually only describing the dietary guidelines of the Vegan religion.

Mark

[JaxAx]

Again, dialects that are misappropriations, or bastardizations of Standard American: the phonetically corect manner of speaking. Pronunciation can be plain old wrong as can dietary habits.

[giotto]

I mean, why would a person not eat meat.

I guess the feeling of superiority they derive from being vegetarians or vegans is more satisfying than the smell, taste and sense of well-being from eating a juicy steak. To each his own. I just wish they'd leave the rest of us alone.

[Cobra Scott]

Standard American? That's called Spanish, isn't it?

[RightWhale]

Just how, exactly, do you pronounce Megan?

I knew one of those once. She was called 'Maygan'.

[xhrist]

Back in college , I knew a few hard-core "vegans".
They would not USE any animal products or byproducts..

They followed this to the point of eating no honey (no support of bee slave labor ya know), no clothes of leather or wool.(they wore lots of polyesther & canvas)

I had many a mind numbing discussion with them about their philosopies...Amazing the levels of confusion for people at that age...
I always wondered just how long someone could live that way, and what kind of person would they become following such ways...maybe like Golem?

[mikemurphy111]

I have no problem with any person being a vegan but look what happens when that bumb bitch won't allow her kids to eat meat!!!= You have a sickly, no-energy, anemic child who suffers greatly because his mother doesn't have a brain!!!

[El Conservador]

May I add to this???

There's also a category of people called semi-vegetarian, which is basically a person who avoids red meat (beef, pork, game), and eats poultry and fish.

[El Conservador]

One of the requirements to be a vegan, is to push and shove their lifestyle in other, whether the other like it or not. Vegetarians at most will extol the virtues of vegetarian diets related to health, but if you want to eat meat, they'll leave you alone. But a vegan will give you guilt trips of how cruelly animals die to be made into food, and if you insist on eating meat, they'll call you a cow-killer.

They just blow your mind...

[giotto]

But a vegan will...call you a cow-killer.

Since most of them seem to be mindless pro-choice liberals, better a cow killer than a baby killer.