Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for December 16, 2014

Oh, how shameful. (Is honey really vegan even though bees which are animals make it, not made from them?)

I sincerely hope there’s no Great Cow in the Sky — my umbrella isn’t up to the job.

I love all God’s creatures. Many of them are delicious!

How can "He squirt milk? “He” might be all powerful but only females have that power.

Victor’s behavior is udderly ridiculous.

And let’s not even get started on silk….

Rat adds milk from a male bovine to his coffee?

Good to see Rat bring Victor down! Too bad Rat doesn’t know his she-cows (and heifers) from his he-bulls….Isn’t it peculiar for that vegan to visualize his deity as a “great cow” in the sky? Wouldn’t he more likely worship kudzu, or wild artichokes, or maybe sunflowers?

When I first heard my mother talk about “PETA people,” I misheard it as “pita people;” I thought it referred to vegans who were so obsessed with staying on track that they would swear to eat only pita bread. This is a misunderstanding worthy of Pig.

Whatever a he-cow squirts in your coffee is not milk, Rat.

Is “Victor the Vegan” based on one of Stephan’s friends, a la “Jef the Bicyclist”?

Visualize whirled peas.

reminds me of a joke about Merkin and his

I don’t see why some people think animal life is superior to plant life.

The Great Cow in the Sky? I can almost hear Clare Torry mooing at a cloud where Richard Wright is playing the celestial piano.

Pretty classy diner if even their stools are leather covered. You’d think vinyl would be more likely. Of course, Victor may not have thought of that yet.I once asked a vegan I know if vegans would eat honey. I mean, I know they don’t like using animal products, but banning insect secretions seems a bit extreme. She said that some vegans would and others wouldn’t. It didn’t occur to me to ask her about shellac.

No animal is harmed in the making of honey and it isn’t actually “produced” by the bee like milk is from a cow. So is it ok for a vegan to eat?

Leave it to Rat to say the right thing in that situation. Only an idiot that thought honey was the same as animal flesh would try to milk a bull! As luck would have it he might encounter Ferdinhand!

“How did the first person ever discover how to milk a cow …"I imagine he or she observed how calves “milked a cow” and imitated them? Ew.

I’m unrepentant. Many baby polyesters died to make my clothes.

More Crocs, dammit!

Well no, he cannot squirt milk

Yum, bee puke on my toast!

Oh, now you’re just milking it for all it’s worth …:Actually, I was talking about something else that comes out of cows, both male and female.

One of the small pleasures of Life is when I engage a person of extreme beliefs, be it Far Left or Far Right, is to do or say something to cause them to begin to Froth at the Mouth.

Hey Rat! Cream in your coffee?Not lately.

Not eating meat is a choice… eating meat is an instinct and they’ve served me well so far… if my instincts tell me to eat bacon, i’m gonna eat bacon.

Have to agree, db…

Even swine will eat bacon, for cryin’ out loud. We eat what Mother Nature has designed us to eat.Humans are omnivores, and environment providing, usually have many dietary choices.Key word – choices. Morality? Ask the pig eating bacon.

I’m not vegan myself but I have nothing against them at all.

“To each their own”

xxx

I thought bee’s were more along the lines of insects, not animals…therefore its an insect product not animal. I also thought vegan think that the best alternative is to eat insects and stuff too?

No, that’s adding a middleman.

Pastis forgets people who rescue dogs. A noble pursuit, but the loudest group of people on earth.

I doubt if HE is a cow, Rat.

He?

“Great cow in the sky.”That was one of the best lines I have read in awhile.

Bee Barf — nature’s cure-all.

Moral superiority grows old quickly.The natural result is advanced use of cosmetics and days spent in the mirror, patching up the seams.

Um, the milk from a “he” cow might taste a little different than what Rat’s used to.

Then again, maybe that’s what he’s after. Something new, something different. Something spunky.

Loose the clothes too, hypocrite Viktor.

Am I the only one that finds it weird to put honey on toast?

Punishment by kale lashing.

She…

I don’t understand why vegans are so against honey. no harm comes from bees by taking honey, they still have enough honey to survive and thrive, and heck, they LET you take their honey. if they didn’t like it in their artificial hives, they’d just leave.

Bees are insects, so does it really count as animal products?

“He”?

I don’t think you’re going to get milk.

So, do vegans wash and brush their teeth? Because they’re killing millions of living creatures.

If “the great cow in the sky” squirts milk into Rat’s coffee, what he squirts won’t be milk.

Rat isn’t very clueful about cattle, is he?