IMO exceptions are sometimes necessary.
Eat the rich.
this post was submitted on 30 Dec 2025
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Composting will do.
I was going to question whether that might ruin the soil composition and leave the land barren, but the logical conclusion would then be that they’re also not safe to eat 
Yeah, you gotta let the small ones and the fungi deal with that. And there needs to be a lot of fibrous plant mass.
I don’t eat beings with feelings. The rich have done nothing to prove they can feel like other animals can.
So yes, the exception holds.
Is greed a feeling? Contempt?
Is there supposed to be a joke here?
Nobody says that message in the 2nd panel, right?
It's usually framed as criticizing vegans for focusing on animals at all when any human is experiencing injustice as if you can't oppose both.
They do indeed, though usually not in such a manner to set up an easy retort.
Nobody says that message in the 2nd panel, right?
I'm guessing it's been said a lot. Something like, "You shouldn't care about animals suffering when there are humans suffering." That sort of BS.
"You hateful monster, don't you realize that if I can't have burger I literally die?!" is a thing I see hysterical carnivore diet folks twist themselves into knots asserting.
I have no idea what they're going to do as the cost of industrial animal products continues to climb. But cannibalism appears to be on the table, so to speak.
But they told me to eat pussy, not animals.
Nobody tells me nothin
They're made out of meat.
Thinking meat?
Who wants to meet meat?
Does that make mutually consensual consumption (e.g. of someone's amputated leg) non-vegan?
Nobody tells me nothin
😉
Nobody tells me nothin
So Vegans just think "respect" means "not eating them". Got it! Thank you for the lesson!