Herbivorous Ogres
Anon
Genre: | Notes, Drollery |
Subjects: | Nutrition, Botany, Animal Behaviour |
Insists that the 'Teetotaller who is also a vegetarian may be accused of cannibalism' because a 'plant drinks nothing but water' and the teetotaller/vegetarian thus 'devours his own species' when he eats vegetables. | |
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