Looking for grass-fed meat is done because we don’t like the animals we eat to have lived tortured lives in cages or pens, force-fed at rates that make them miserable.
If we’re going to nitpick anachronisms — which is pretty silly, since they’re the basis of the humor in this strip! — .• From the body type, they’re not T. Rex, but velociraptors (or a related species). And who knows? They may even have been purple…and at least some of them, it now turns out, were covered with feathers. (Isn’t archaeology fun?).• The flying critters in the background don’t need to be seagulls; there were, after all, flying dinosaurs..• They’re not exactly extinct — they evolved into birds. Which I think is pretty darn cool..As for the modern human reference of the joke, about being picky about grass-fed meat? It does come from more human treatment of the livestock (up to the point of eating them, anyway); it is healthier for humans to eat; and it’s much more efficient not to waste corn and other feed grains — and the associated water, fertilizer, pesticides, etc. needed to grow them — on cattle, when hungry people could eat them as well. Call it, ah, food for thought. :J
Grass was around in the Cretaceous, and T. rex was a late Cretaceous dinosaur, so no anachronism. The cartoon looks more like T.rex than a velociraptor. No dinosaurs could fly unless you refer to the forms transitional to birds (pterosaurs were not dinos).
tomtrek over 12 years ago
No wonder they’re extinct.
Gluteus Maximus over 12 years ago
Vegitarian T-Rexs r as dumb an idea as Veg. great white sharks.(Well, Shark tale kinda proves that it’s possible…)
rf_eq over 12 years ago
the food pyramid had not yet been established.
Nebulous Premium Member over 12 years ago
During the Mesozoic Era grass hadn’t evolved yet.Cannabis either.
KA7DRE Premium Member over 12 years ago
Makes for a little better grade of fossil fuel down the line !
Superfrog over 12 years ago
Looks like more of a browser than a grazer.
Elizabeth C Premium Member over 12 years ago
Looking for grass-fed meat is done because we don’t like the animals we eat to have lived tortured lives in cages or pens, force-fed at rates that make them miserable.
JGordonFan24 over 12 years ago
If God didn’t want us to eat meat, He wouldn’t have made it smell so good on a bbq grill.
rockngolfer over 12 years ago
Looks like gulls have already evolved in the background.
GROG Premium Member over 12 years ago
Somebody’s been smoking plenty of it.
Xane_T over 12 years ago
They need to rename this strip P.C. – Political Commentary.Can we please get back to the lame puns and Wolfie being cute?
saullevy over 12 years ago
I miss Wolfie too!
Dewed over 12 years ago
Unlike Wolfie … who was poop fed
jtviper7 over 12 years ago
What is that smell coming from the dark green grass ?
PShaw0423 over 12 years ago
If we’re going to nitpick anachronisms — which is pretty silly, since they’re the basis of the humor in this strip! — .• From the body type, they’re not T. Rex, but velociraptors (or a related species). And who knows? They may even have been purple…and at least some of them, it now turns out, were covered with feathers. (Isn’t archaeology fun?).• The flying critters in the background don’t need to be seagulls; there were, after all, flying dinosaurs..• They’re not exactly extinct — they evolved into birds. Which I think is pretty darn cool..As for the modern human reference of the joke, about being picky about grass-fed meat? It does come from more human treatment of the livestock (up to the point of eating them, anyway); it is healthier for humans to eat; and it’s much more efficient not to waste corn and other feed grains — and the associated water, fertilizer, pesticides, etc. needed to grow them — on cattle, when hungry people could eat them as well. Call it, ah, food for thought. :J
DuHhozr over 12 years ago
I almost got some grass fed meat with my pickup this morning!
belock Premium Member over 12 years ago
Grass was around in the Cretaceous, and T. rex was a late Cretaceous dinosaur, so no anachronism. The cartoon looks more like T.rex than a velociraptor. No dinosaurs could fly unless you refer to the forms transitional to birds (pterosaurs were not dinos).
boldyuma over 12 years ago
Maybe Fern fed ,or, Palm fed..
iced tea over 12 years ago
The meat we all eat is grass fed. So it was back in those days.