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Hello fellow Far Side fans!
About this community and how I post the comic strip… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips and one of those was The Far Side. These days of course you find just about anything online including www.thefarside.com where they post several comics a day and I repost them here. Just to note, the date you see in my posts is not the initial release date, but the date they were posted on the website.
The Far Side is a single-panel comic created by Gary Larson and syndicated by Chronicle Features and then Universal Press Syndicate, which ran from December 31, 1979, to January 1, 1995 (when Larson retired as a cartoonist). Its surrealistic humor is often based on uncomfortable social situations, improbable events, an anthropomorphic view of the world, logical fallacies, impending bizarre disasters, (often twisted) references to proverbs, or the search for meaning in life… Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Far_Side
Hope you enjoy and feel free to contribute to the community with art, cool stuff about the author, tattoos, toys and anything else, as long it’s The Far Side!
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It's so creepy when carnists comment on animal abuse.
Just because a person eats animals and uses animal products doesn't mean they don't respect them.
I prefer leather over its alternatives, as leather is a side product from the beef industry, so we use more of the animal. It's worse now that cars come with vinyl seats ("vegan leather") using petrochemicals and industrial products instead of the skin of an animal that was being killed anyway
So in the 80's they had to have laws because cattle was being killed just for leather (which I believe was mostly in brazil where rain forest was being cut down for grazeland). As much beef as we eat it would not support all fake leather things being done as leather.
Indeed. Beef prices tell me they're not the loss leader product, and leather is cheap, so I don't think that's a problem now
but again it has been and you mention cars using leather. Without the leather alernatives it very much would be a problem.
If a person both abuses and "respects" animals, they necessarily have to compartmentalize and maim themselves to accomplish that.
"Using more of the animal" doesn't change the morality of it. Like fuck, some nazis made lamp shades out of human skin, does that make the murder of those people less tragic?? The fact that you can even think in these terms shows how disturbed and warped your thinking is. How far from reality you have to keep your thoughts in order to maintain your view that you are a good person who respects animals.
THIS is EXACTLY what I mean when I say it is FUCKING CREEPY when carnists talk about animal abuse.