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A scene from the BBC's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy TV series in which Arthur argues vegetarianism in a restaurant where the dish of the day cheerfully offers up parts of its own body.

Posted as a joke in threads about livestock, animal intelligence and ethics of eating meat.

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5 comments from Hacker News

@DonHopkins2025 · in “Experts Explore New Mushroom Which Causes Fairytale-Like Hallucinations”

Which also explains the talking Ameglian Major Cow on the menu at Milliways, in Douglas Adams' The Restaurant at the End of the Universe: when you confuse evolutionary outcomes with intent, you end up with livestock enthusiastically volunteering for dinner. ▶ this video

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@verisimi2022 · in “The Ethical Principles of Public Health”

Ok. IMO, you are advocating for the existing system, which creates the terror events, fear, etc and indoctrinates the populace to their way of thinking. This is plainly immoral - we have a society based in widely-believed lies. You can dispute my characterisation - but, if you were to research 'news', history, science, etc more deeply, I think you would find that the explanations are merely expedient devices to get you 'bought in'. The aim is to get the turkeys to vote for Christmas - or more specifically - to vote for their servitude. If you get people to go believe in whatever fresh disempowering horror has been created, despite the lack of any personal evidence, you are able to move them towards greater dependence on external governance. You are supporting enslavement. The opposite to this, is autonomous, self-guided individuals that don't need external governance. I know what I want to do and don't want guidance. Note this is NOT an allowed option. I don't want to pay protection money (taxes) to others, especially when they use that money against me. Ask yourself, is it acceptable that I live freely? With the ability to self-govern myself, defend myself against attacks on my freedom - eg against police levying fines, requesting licensing, etc - in order to interact in society? You'd think so.. but what we actually have is slavery that wants to call itself 'freedom'. What I am advocating is 'anything but slavery', even covert slavery. This is easily achieved IMO, by the ap

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@cpeterso2021 · in “Researchers successfully potty-train cows”

The H2G2 wiki says it wan an Ameglian Major Cow: link Here's a clip with the cow from the BBC's H2G2 TV series: ▶ this video

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@simondotau2021 · in “The fig is an ecological marvel”

In terms of comedy derived from the eating of animals, I'm partial to the restaurant scene in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: "Is there any reason why I shouldn't have a green salad?" "I know many vegetables that are very clear on that point sir, which is why it was decided to cut through the whole tangled problem by breeding an animal that actually wanted to be eaten—and was capable of saying so, clearly and distinctly. And here I am." "Glass of water?" ▶ this video

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@hanoz2018 · in “Studies Show That Pigs Are More Intelligent Than Dogs”

Why? Is it better to eat a pig with a lower IQ? Even if it would have had a higher IQ had you not bred it out of one? What about a pig with a higher IQ but which was happy with its lot? ▶ this video

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