The Whole Buffalo
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Where's the analogue for the bowl of petunias?
geez Roko don't be a narc
In the Vt/NH region the rule on moose and wandering cows is 'first there with a truck'. People scan the police band for large roadkill for that very reason.
Shame. Buffalo meat is delicious.
Pretty sure Taco Bell uses incidentally harvested beef.
Incidentally Harvested Beef is the name of my electroclash/reggae fusion cover band.
Cows not so much. Incidentally harvested venison is quite legal in many jurisdictions.
For that level of mess, she had to have been doing about Mach 1 when she impacted the cow.
Possibly faster. It normally takes something like a train impact to do that sort of damage to livestock. What's really scary is, for her to walk away from that hit with nothing more than a dislocated pinkie finger would mean she is probably at least as durable as Bubbles. In her armor.
Cows explode when you bump into 'em. Happens all the time.
I am struck with the mental image of a ford pinto colliding with a cow and the cow bursting into flame
These two last strips are really weird. Was the cow alive before the incident? Did it belong to this robot or to the company she works for? Was it just a traffic incident (which should probably be reported, along with property damage/theft), or some freak incident in the slaughter house (which also raises questions about their work conditions and security, OSHA may be really pissed). Characters' reactions, while amusing, really just reinforce the idea of QC-verse being very different from ours.
not to get overly serious in a web comic, but I'm hoping Jeph will dig into some of the physical ("ordinary" robot destroys ordinary cow, which takes some doing), ethical (did she at least tell the farmer and offer restitution??), and moral (there have been several discussions about AI responsibilities as arguably superior beings, and what are their responsibilities in this case?? to avoid causing damage?? to report it?? to avoid appearance of irresponsibility as rep of AI race??) ramifications of the situation.
When you're a vegetarian, this sort of humor reads differently. It reads as it would to a carnivore if the strip were joking about carelessly killing a dog, cat, or deer. Carnivores are deeply ideologically wedded to the notion that cows don't count because they are intrinsically, essentially no more than potential hamburger. Joking about them being suddenly converted to meat seems perfectly appropriate. If you don't have to maintain that ideology, things look different. I'm not shocked or offended, nor do I think meat eaters are bad people. I am just saying that it is startling how much habits change perceptions.
Humans aren't carnivores, we're omnivores. Aside from that, what a pretentious ass you are.
Now I want to know if that robot was roller skating through a buffalo herd?
Seems an awful waste. With the price of meat what is is when you get it, if you get it
Yeah, but do you eat leg and intestine?
I keep misreading the title as "The Whole Butthole."
AT LEAST two completely different sets of laws. Probably more
Cannon Law is OK with it
For sale: beef of questionable origin
Literally beef of questionable content.
Moo... ...ve get outta the way!
> Moo? I concur.
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For the less adventurous palate there is also Bessie's Cattle Retirement Resort and Hospice. "We'll Serve No Bovine Before It's Time".
Incidental Meats introduces it's new involuntary slaughter house. Home of the world famous Brittney Burger "Opps, We Did It Again!"
They could probably just take it home and fry it if they really wanted to avoid waste. Might not be the best idea though. Who knows where this meat came from.
A dead cow, presumably.
But... did they save the cow bell?
I never thought that "needs more cowbell" trope applies to comics, but here we are.