Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for October 18, 2012
October 12, 2012
October 19, 2012
Transcript:
Enjoy this Classic Tom the Dancing Bug Every Thursday Panels from the annals of the Tom the Dancing Bug archive Check back every Friday for a fresh, brand new Tom the Dancing Bug! Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling FOIE GRAS! That quintessential gourmet treat has only one drawback - the nasty ethical aftertaste of knowing it's made from the distended livers of ducks and geese that have had pneumatic tubes repeatedly rammed down their esophagus, mechanically pumping them full of corn paste. The Humane Foie Gras Farm At the Humane Foie Gras Farm, we induce obesity in our ducks not through brute force, but by simply giving them the LIFESTYLE AND PRIVILEGES WE ALL ENJOY AS AMERICANS! Every Sunday, our ducks are seated in La-Z-Boy chairs to watch hours of TV, surrounded by a dizzying array of cheese products, starch products, and cheese-filled starch products! Five days a week, our ducks are rendered sedentary in small cubicles, where the only food available in the short breaks allowed them are from snack machines and fast food outlets! Meals are presented to our ducks in obscenely huge portions, squeezed in next to densely caloric side dishes, super-sized, value-packed and all-you-can-eat gluttonized! Finally, our ducks are subjected to work and family stress so severe, they find themselves alone in the kitchen at 4 AM, stuffing peanut butter sandwiches down their throats! THE FOIE GRAS IS SUBLIME, AND YOU CAN ENJOY KNOWING IT WAS CULTIVATED IN THE MOST HUMANE - INDEED, HUMAN - WAY POSSIBLE! Duck: Uh...actually, we'd prefer the pneumatic tube.
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george over 11 years ago
suddenly I’m hungry.
el8 over 11 years ago
Eat or eaten, it’s all the same in the end regardless of the means.
number9dream over 11 years ago
Where’s the refrigerator magnets?
crlinder over 11 years ago
I’m a bit confused by what you posted. Are you saying that dictators and psychopaths only care about how they die but not how they live? I was just trying to follow on win’s post by saying that even though we all die it doesn’t mean we don’t care how we live.
pam Miner over 11 years ago
Yuck. I have never eaten the stuff, it sounds gross and there is no humane way of making the stuff.
mrsullenbeauty over 11 years ago
The main flaw in this scenario is that the livers aren’t actually edible after imbibing the booze that accompanies the lifestyle.
Vince M over 11 years ago
Foie gras, schmoie gras – I say it’s liver and I say to hell with it!
SebRoll over 11 years ago
Foie gras is not necessarily inhuman or cruel. Though I am sure there are those who do produce this delicacy in a cruel indifferent manner.
I was uneasy and considered abandoning foie gras because of what I felt was unnecessary cruelty to these animals, but with some research I got to understand a lot about why it might not be such a bad deal for ducks(their eventual slaughter aside, of course).
For instance, take a look at this photo of a duck eating a fish: http://www.birdinginformation.com/wp-content/gallery/double-crested-cormorant/dbl-crested-swallowing-fish-1a.jpg Putting a feeding tube down their throat sounds horrible to us, but is pretty normal for a duck, whose breathing isnt restricted, and who’s throat is adapted to this kind of feeding.
There’s more nuance here than meets the eye.
I do love this comic strip, though!
fenneuter over 11 years ago
Some terrible things have happened to Lucky Duck, but you, his biggest fan, want him subjected to THIS?
bob202 about 11 years ago
I thought foie gras came from goose liver?