Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for March 30, 2024

Vultures clean up the environment. Just ask the Zoroastrians.

At first I was going to say: There’s a difference between true vultures, who are simply trying to make a living according to the innate dictates of their own nature, and human capitalistic vultures, who are . . . and then I realized: So are those human ones.

Alex’ figure is already developing. How time flies!!

A birds gotta eat.

Wow! Silicon Valley ‘Effective Altruism’ nerds meet your prequel.

Many scavenger birds are protected by law. I wonder why crows aren’t? I do know they’re smart. They can be all around your house, but if you come out carrying a gun, they’ll immediately move about a quarter mile away.

Great spin job, Mike! There’s a home for you in politics!

Scavengers are a natural part of the cycle.

Where can I find one-and don’t say ‘Iran’.

Vultures have a bad rap, like snakes. Disney should remake Bambi with one instead of a cute deer

“And I really like our Condor attitude…”

(≖_ʖ ≖)

Vultures, like all animals, do what they must to survive. It’s humans who assign some sort of nobility to killing something directly rather than making use of remains.

I was starting to worry about Alex’s attitude over the past few days – it almost looked like she was being raised with the ethics of a child of Duke’s. I’m glad to see that she was having a twinge of conscience (even if her father rationalized it away).

How about… Vulture Health Care ?

Nice sound to it, easy to remember. I like it.

There’s a certain point with each of the original Doonesbury characters where they started to grow less likeable.

It’s a circle of life…thing.

Wish Doonesbury would remember what computers his characters use, Windows or Mac. They switch back and forth ….frequently

The “magnificient” California Condor is basically an overgrown Turkey Vulture. They do a fine job of cleanup.

Very good! Nothing to see here. Carrion!

Circle of life.

I have it in my will that I would prefer to be eaten by wild animals when I die. Being dragged out into a forest for wolves or bears may be illegal but a burial at sea or a sky burial might do the trick.

Vultures are underappreciated. Especially by possums who have to compete with them.

genus Cathartes of the family Cathartidae

Vultures play an important role in the ecosystem.

Just yesterday I was driving along one of our county roads and noticed four turkey vultures perched in a tree together. So I looked around, and there it was, a dead deer on the side of the road. The vultures were just waiting for traffic to clear so they could begin to feed off the deer. It is not a pleasant part of nature, but a necessary one. As for the business context of the comic, if a company is going belly-up, they should be selling off their assets in order to pay back their creditors. Creditors who lend money to companies so they can do business are taking a risk, sure, but if companies never paid back what they owe, then there would be no creditors. Nobody would be in that business.

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