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Cyanide & Happiness

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Hello fellow Cyanide and Happiness fans!

Cyanide & Happiness (C&H) is a webcomic created by Rob DenBleyker, Kris Wilson, Dave McElfatrick and Matt Melvin. The comic has been running since 2005 and is published on the website explosm.net along with animated shorts in the same style. Matt Melvin left C&H in 2014, and several other people have contributed to the comic and to the animated shorts

Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanide_%26_Happiness

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History

@MrSebSin@sh.itjust.works started this community and wrote:

About this community and how I post the comics… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips. Of course these days you can read your favorite comics online instead of a newspaper, but I love the nostalgia of reading the daily comics. Anyway, one of my favorite current comics is Cyanide and Happiness and I will be posting the daily release from their website (https://explosm.net/) and a an extra or two randoms.

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All comics posted are freely available online. In no way is the poster claiming ownership, copyright or anything else. This is a not for profit community, we just want to enjoy our comics, thank you.

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[–] sturlabragason@lemmy.world 83 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 81 points 1 month ago (3 children)

If you eat basically any form of meat, I have some bad news for you...

[–] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (8 children)

I do give deer hunting a pass because they're overpopulated in places (because humans wiped out their native predators).

Feel free to try and change my mind so I can wipe that off my ever-shrinking personal "ethically ok to eat meats" list. For all I know this is one of those lies I was raised with that I've not examined since childhood. Edit: context is in Kentucky, USA 20 years ago. I don't know about deer populations elsewhere and elsewhen.

[–] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 49 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (9 children)

Former vegan, current pescatarian here.

Dont stop hunting, please. Humans did a phenomenal job of ensuring a required hunting season for deer by wiping out all the natural predators, now without them we have to have culls. If you participate in said culls, PLEASE eat the meat, use the pelt, give the antlers to your dog. We've forced ourselves into a position where some of us MUST take up the mantle of predator. If you choose to, just be responsible with the carcass so it didn't die for no good reason.

Edit: accidentally lied, I'm not a vegetarian I'm a pescatarian who outside of her 6 shrimp a week is vegan.

[–] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 1 month ago (6 children)

To add a wrinkle: there's now "farmed deer". It's supposedly more environmentally friendly than farmed cow, but I don't like it because •vague feelings I've not fully examined•.

So don't assume any venison you find in the grocery store was hunted.

[–] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 month ago

Wow, thanks, I hate it!

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Vague feelings? I think your feelings are pretty spot-on, farming an animal whose population is already excessive in the wild is bizarre.

Wild deer are more environmentally friendly than farmed deer.

[–] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 month ago

The feelings are vague because I can't put them confidently into words, but your explanation resonates.

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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Only time I've eaten meat in the past ~30 years was when I ate some invasive fish that had been caught in a killathon to restore native habitat. Not that it's my role to "give you a pass," but I certainly do in this case!

[–] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Apparently there's spear fisherfolk in Florida that kill invasive lionfish and provide them to local restaurants. I'm all for killing and eating invasive species.

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[–] mathemachristian@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Or drink milk. Vegetarians don't get a pass.

[–] Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

I only drink polar bear milk. I find the chalky cod liver oil taste delightful.

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 17 points 1 month ago

There's whale meat in my steak!?

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 47 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I mean yes, but what do you think happens to regular fish

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 41 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Many of us are against that too. Whales just happen to be exceedingly intelligent and capable of forming powerful emotional bonds

[–] Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 38 points 1 month ago (14 children)
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[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 month ago

Farm animals have it even worse

[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Whales are the farmers of the sea. They fertilize the open oceans and produce more food than they eat. Especially the biggest ones, like the fin whales Japan has decided to hunt again. So if you like sea food, maybe don't kill the whales.

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[–] kapulsa@feddit.org 34 points 1 month ago (10 children)

This is not an isolated issue. This is how we treat animals and other humans (regarding the harpooning, we only do it figuratively to other humans, not literally).

Go vegan.

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

We do it literally to other humans, look Gaza or South Sudan

[–] kapulsa@feddit.org 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You're right. Probably should be mostly figuratively to humans, but also literally. And we also do it figuratively to the whales by destroying and polluting the ocean ecosystems.

[–] aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

People's morality about slaughtering meat is going to flip so hard once we get affordable lab grown meat, future generations will think of us as utter savages. But until then I don't think it's going to happen at scale

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I doubt, it's going to make any sudden jumps. We have various vegan meat alternatives already, which are good, and you still have plenty people that feel personally attacked by the existence of morals, because they base their personality on eating dead animals.

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Maybe that's because most of the vegan meat alternatives don't taste like what they're trying to replace, have a weird texture, or cause horrible gas/stomach problems.

We haven't cracked a good meat substitute yet, at least not for people that enjoy the real thing. We're close, but we're just not there yet.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I think it's a real shame too. I've had some fantastic veggie/potato burger. You gotta drop all pretense of the patty being meat, and instead just focus on making it tasty.

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[–] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Crazy that some seem to suggest you can't care about whales heading towards extinction without being a level 6 Vegan.

[–] FinishingDutch@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Yup. I’m very opposed to whaling - they’re magnificent creatures - but I’m not giving up my hamburger any time soon.

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[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Tried making a joke here before reading more about it and now I regret the joke so I edited this out.

[–] the_q@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The human experience is built on cruelty.

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[–] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago

Well usually it's more injure the child so mom stays close then murder both.

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's okay, it's for scientific research !

[–] sturlabragason@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I know it's not, it's just the garbage excuse they've been using for decades

[–] sturlabragason@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Used to be there, now I just keep sharing the above link 🤷‍♂️

This is why "/s" exists

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