fishillusionment
Original: fishillusionment on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (single panel):
Narration / scientist (a man in a white lab coat with glasses and gray hair, standing beside a woman, both facing a fish tank): "We brought him up watching videos of heroic law-abiding fish. Then, when he was mature, we showed him those same fish profiting from secret collaboration with pescetarians. At this point, he is so disillusioned that he feels nothing and longs for death."
Inside the tank: a single fish swims among a couple of aquatic plants; a small picture/photo is mounted on the tank wall.
Caption below the panel: "We discovered a new form of ethical animal consumption."
Votey:
A close-up cartoon face (the scientist) with a wide grin, speaking: "I think we can scale up to cannibalism."
Narration / scientist (a man in a white lab coat with glasses and gray hair, standing beside a woman, both facing a fish tank): "We brought him up watching videos of heroic law-abiding fish. Then, when he was mature, we showed him those same fish profiting from secret collaboration with pescetarians. At this point, he is so disillusioned that he feels nothing and longs for death."
Inside the tank: a single fish swims among a couple of aquatic plants; a small picture/photo is mounted on the tank wall.
Caption below the panel: "We discovered a new form of ethical animal consumption."
Votey:
A close-up cartoon face (the scientist) with a wide grin, speaking: "I think we can scale up to cannibalism."
Alt text
A lab-coated scientist with glasses and gray hair stands beside a smiling woman in front of a fish tank holding a single fish and some plants, with a small photo mounted on the glass. He explains: "We brought him up watching videos of heroic law-abiding fish. Then, when he was mature, we showed him those same fish profiting from secret collaboration with pescetarians. At this point, he is so disillusioned that he feels nothing and longs for death." A caption reads: "We discovered a new form of ethical animal consumption" — the joke being they've made the fish suicidally depressed so eating it is supposedly ethical. Votey: a grinning close-up of the scientist adding, "I think we can scale up to cannibalism."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.