Someone had to say it.

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People just like to think it is in order to justify their misplaced feelings of superiority.

As to life itself - it always ends. Period.

Funny strip, but it's always interesting how even when we're trying not to, we still anthropomorphize the entire rest of the animal world. Dolphins are actually, by human standards, right bastards who kill, rape and play (again, by human standards) sadistic games with their prey and other animals.

So, the dolphins somehow got humans to turn on themselves and decided not to tell the last man? Oh, and would it matter if they did tell him? Does the guy speak Dolphin?

Humans are omnivores who are able biologically to eat the tissue of other animals.

Many other species are omnivorous, or indeed, carnivorous. It is never "justified" by "superior intelligence". It is just the way those species evolved. An alligator doesn't eat a rabbit to "demonstrate superior alligator intelligence".

Entirely because of what we call intelligence, humans have highly flexible behavior, and can abstractly ascribe value to the lives of potential prey, and choose to forgo potential advantages of using animal products (and/or advance convoluted arguments to deny that there could ever be any advantage).

Before I go on I must make it clear that I have a high degree of respect for veganism and vegetarianism, both of which I see as healthy, responsible and in tune with the best human impulses. However...

I see that the cartoonist has a low opinion of biomedical research. Yes, indeed, so superior to be an "alternative cartoonist" than to advance medical and scientific knowledge through research. All medical researchers should quite their jobs to draw cartoons for Salon. I urge this cartoonist to scrupulously refrain from any medical therapy that was in any way advanced by basic research, no matter what the circumstances. To act otherwise would be hypocritical.