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{{quote|''"[[Let Me Get This Straight...]]. You know her; she knows you. But she wants to eat him. And...everybody's okay with this? '''Did I miss something?'''"''|'''Timon'''
There's an [[Elephant in the Living Room|unspoken awkward issue]] in fiction involving [[Talking Animal]]s. If everyone can talk, and everyone at least implicitly has the same thoughts and feeling as everyone else regardless of species, does this mean predatory creatures are forced to engage in a form of murder to eat? Or is it more like ''cannibalism?'' And then [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|what happens when]] [[Lions and Tigers and Humans, Oh My!|human characters are added into the mix]]?
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* One ''[[Ozy and Millie]]'' strip features a character lampooning vegetarianism, but characters range from foxes to sheep to cows.
* In ''[[Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures]]'', all critters fall into three groups, non-sapient animals, Beings and Creatures, with the ones higher on the hierarchy eating the ones lower. Causes clashes every now and then, especially due to some Creatures taste for sapient Beings. And did we mention the cow character whose favorite food is...[[I'm a Humanitarian|hamburgers]]?
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** "Synth-meat" is mentioned briefly as being the only legal alternative.
* The above-mentioned ''[[Kevin and Kell]]'', for those who aren't familiar with it, is about a "mixed marriage" between a rabbit and a wolf. As such it addresses this issue with surprising frequency and from several different angles. Kell, the wolf, runs "Dewclaws Fine Meats" and previously worked for HerdThinners Inc., two predatory ''corporations'' that hunt other animals and sell the meat. Young carnivores are specifically taught ''not'' to talk to their prey, as it may result in befriending them. However, you need to eat the animal that you kill, otherwise it's murder.
** There's also a rule that states that predators are unable to track down and eat ''specific'' prey, meaning they can't kill an eat anyone they know, or have business dealings with.
** In a post about a [[Gender Swap]] comic for April Fool's day of 2007, Holbrook mentions that there would be [[Unfortunate Implications|a considerable]] [[Unequal Pairing|power imbalance]] if "Kelly" was the predator and "Kevina" was the prey. He admits that George and Danielle are a couple with a female prey species and a male predator, but notes that they're secondary characters. (It probably helps that Danielle {{spoiler|was originally a human, meaning that she's not instinctively scared of George and she eats meat}}).
* In ''[[Freefall]]'', the only furry is a she-wolf, and she [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff100/fv00023.htm has] [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff200/fv00183.htm been] [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff300/fv00228.htm shown] to eat other animals. She [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff200/fv00193.htm justifies] this by explaining nature's natural food cycle, but
** It's probably easier to go to restaurants than deal with Helix's apparently Disney-fied view of how nature works. [[Fridge Logic|Also, the planet they live on is still being terraformed, and Florence is an engineer by training; she probably doesn't want to eat an animal that's important to the terraforming process.]]
* In ''[http://fesandernst.com P.S.I.]'', the only non-sapient land animals are insects. This has [https://web.archive.org/web/20080907181935/http://fesandernst.com/Guest_DebtOn01.htm obvious] implications on the food supply in the comic's universe.
* ''[http://suburbanjungle.com The Suburban Jungle]'' follows the 'fact of life' approach. Except in specific situations, such as the workplace, or a specifically 'No Predation Allowed' bar, it's basically A-OK to eat each other. Although you might expect a girl to get cross if it turns out you accidentally [http://suburbanjungleclassic.com/?p=49 ate her date].
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