"For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life" - Aeschylus

If Everyone Was Vegan

If Everyone Was Vegan / by C-Section Comics


Livestock animals did suffer quite a lot of pain.
Conditions in those factory farms were actually insane.
The animals were crammed together into filthy sheds,
and didn’t get to feel the sunshine warm their little heads.

Jon was good of heart and couldn’t stand to see their ache,
the videos he saw had caused his gentle heart to break.
In their misery our Jon did not want to take part,
so Jon became a vegan, and did it with all his heart.

But one man turning vegan does not really change a thing,
so Jon tried talking to his friends in hope they’d follow him.
Most his friends liked eating meat, they didn’t want to stop.
He called them “carnivores” and almost blew off his own top.

So when Jon met the Genie he was genuinely glad
Finally a chance to make things good and fix the bad.
“You have one wish” said Genie and Jon told him with much glee:
“I wish that everyone was vegan, vegan just like me”.

“Granted” said the Genie, and this part was kinda neat:
Everyone immediately then stopped consuming meat.
No animal products, such as milk or eggs or wool.
To eat just rice and soy was suddenly considered cool.

As veganism spread to all the corners of the earth
Livestock animals lost all their economic worth
Farmers then stopped raising them, they too must make a living.
They opened the stockades and sobbed as animals were leaving.

Domesticated animals cannot live in the wild
and after they had been set free, all of them had died.
And so it happened that because of Jon’s extreme conviction
the animals he loved so much had suffered mass extinction.

A life of pain: better than death? Or is it maybe worse?
And can we put a stop to pain throughout the universe?
These questions are quite tough, I don’t have a real solution.
But a world with no meat eaters? I think it’s a delusion.

Animals are hurting, and it’s simple and it’s plain
that we must do the best we can to minimize their pain.
Free range farming feels to me like something rather smart.
It won’t solve everything. But it may be a humble start.

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Final note

I’m not an expert on this subject – so if you have a moment,
and you wish to speak your mind, just tweet to me your comment.

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More comics

Here’s a comic ’bout health aspects of consuming meat,
and here’s another wish whose outcome wasn’t very neat.

6 Comments

  1. Falafel fucker

    Not being born will always be infinitely better than a short and terrible life of suffering. Animals wouldn’t go extinct from people going vegan anyway, a small amount would always maintain in animal sanctuaries and/or the wild.

    And it’s okay anyway if the genetically modified/bred varieties of animals that are in constant suffering their entire lives go extinct and/or die out.

    Do you think vegans haven’t thought about this? Because you appear to be implying vegans are short-sighted naive morons, and I will guarantee you that the majority are not.

    There are no good arguments against veganism. You just don’t care or you’re too lazy.

    1. Rene

      “Animals wouldn’t go extinct from people going vegan anyway”

      Are you seriously taking that lame joke “seriously”? So lame….

      “And it’s okay anyway if the genetically modified/bred varieties of animals that are in constant suffering their entire lives go extinct and/or die out”

      “It’s okay” according to who? your pretentious snowflake moral compass? Your fellow snowflakes?

      “There are no good arguments against veganism. You just don’t care or you’re too lazy.”

      Of course being a pretentious snowflake that you are, any arguments which against your religious faith are never good. It’s just your nature to be intolerable.

      I’m not surprise that fallacious thinking is your “weapon” in every argument you submitted.

      1. Cannot debunk veganism

        “It’s okay according to who? your pretentious snowflake moral compass? Your fellow snowflakes?”

        If we bred genetically modified babies just to make them live in poor conditions so we can kill them as toddlers, then we would want them either extinct, or living in good conditions without having to end up killed. Could you tell me rationally why you wouldn’t agree to this, instead of getting triggered while calling other people “snowflakes” (the irony).

        “Of course being a pretentious snowflake that you are, any arguments which against your religious faith are never good. It’s just your nature to be intolerable.”

        Instead of presenting an argument, you start throwing around assumptions and bullshit, so indeed sound like you don’t care, thus proving his statement.

        “I’m not surprise that fallacious thinking is your “weapon” in every argument you submitted.”

        You didn’t debunk anything, just start throwing around assumptions and beating around the bush.

        Very sad, Rene, very sad.

        Sad just like this comic that lives on one excuse/fallacy trying to make veganism look ridiculous: veganism takes time to spread => less demand for animal products => less supply of animal products => less animals bred for this disgusting purpose => last animals will live in sanctuaries.

  2. Rene

    “Animals wouldn’t go extinct from people going vegan anyway”

    Are you seriously taking that lame joke “seriously”? So lame….

    “And it’s okay anyway if the genetically modified/bred varieties of animals that are in constant suffering their entire lives go extinct and/or die out”

    “It’s okay” according to who? your pretentious snowflake moral compass? Your fellow snowflakes?

    “There are no good arguments against veganism. You just don’t care or you’re too lazy.”

    Of course being a pretentious snowflake that you are, any arguments which against your religious faith are never good. It’s just your nature to be intolerable.

    I’m not surprise that fallacious thinking is your “weapon” in every argument you submitted.

  3. Ruben

    This doesn’t make sense. Although I am afraid some people will see it as a good argument, but probably only if it confirms their beliefs and makes sure they don’t have to change their behaviour.

    But if this argument is convincing it would suggest you care about animals. In that case it should be clear that killing them is not exactly a good way to express your care or even love. If you now come back to your word and say you don’t care about animals this argument won’t work either.

    Anyhow, they probably wouldn’t go extinct. Besides, it would save the extinction of thousands of other species. There are around 100 plant and animal species going extinct everyday nowadays. We are in the 6th mass extinction wave and we are causing it. And animal agriculture is a reason why.

  4. Common sense

    … Sanctuaries exist that cater for farmed animals without exploitation. nonetheless, the leading cause of species extinction is animal agriculture.

    Go look into the wildlife population.

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