Ozy And Millie: Vegetarian backlash
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Ozy and Millie
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Something I’ve always wondered: how exactly does meat consumption work in this comic’s universe? Even cows have been demonstrated to be treated like people, so who or what is getting eaten?
More importantly, why not that school principle?
And that P.E. teacher 😛
According to the national news… maybe they have burgers grown in petri dishes?
Maybe humans are on the menu? Have you ever seen a monkey, gorilla, or ape in this universe? My, we are a tasty lot.
….I’m scared.
I could picture Principal Beau Vine giving the lunch ladies detention for making burgers.
I’m guessing either predation is considered acceptable as long as it’s not somebody you know, as in Keven and Kell, or there is a division of sentient and nonsentient animal life with somewhat similar appearance but enough visible difference to tell which one you are hunting, as in Narnia.
Kevin and Kell’s universe can sometimes, after some deep thinking, be just as unnerving as some of the ideas presented in this comic
If predation was okay Felicia and Jeremy wouldn’t pick on Ozy and Millie
I can relate to this.
Foxes are omnivores so going with the vegetarian option isn’t all that unnatural for Ms. Mudd!
Is it me? Or does Millie’s dye her unnatural hair colours? Because before she had dark purple hair… Now it’s bright blue
I meant Mille’s mom…
One does have to wonder how long a restaurant like would end up staying in business. @_@
The restaurant will be fine. The guy behind the counter is gonna get his ass fired.
More like he’s gonna get his ass FRIED
My take on this is that Millie’s mom isn’t a vegetarian, she was just in the mood for vegetarian soup.
Concerning where meat comes from, I’m guessing that there’s some animals that aren’t fully sentient. Goats maybe? I don’t think I’ve seen any goats in the strip.
Actually I just found Ozy’s family reunion arc, (where Isolde first appeared) and it was a goat that gave him the dragon hatchling haircut.
So my new theory is that when someone dies, they can have it in their will to have their bodies sent to a meat processing plant, provided they didn’t die of some horrible disease that’ll infect the meat.
*Sapient.
Technically, ‘sentient’ means ‘having senses’. Some definitions say ‘capable of experiencing the world through sensation AND subjective thought’, which is more debatable, though.
Back on topic, humans see no ethical problem in eating other animals because we believe that our lives have more inherent value than theirs. In the world of this comic, animals of various species seem to exist with little discrimination based on species. However, as seen in an earlier strip, there still seems to be a bias against homosexuals, so quite obviously, the carnivores are allowed to pick from members of the LGBT community.
There’s also some friction between mammals and reptiles that amounts to the equivalent of racism, with mammals playing the part of the whites. In fact it seems to have been the basis for this universes version of the Civil War.
The lunch ladies should be goats because they’ll just about anything, just like how lunch ladies will cook just about anything.
This trope is called “Carnivore Confusion” on the TVTropes site.
if these animals can prey on eachother then you’d think jeremy would be nicer to ozy because eventually he’s going to be able to eat him
Foxes eat rabbits…and hedgehogs..
Jeremy Hopps, nice guy…
Zootopia… where predators and prey live in HARMONY…