Plants tho

Richard Watts really cares about animals. So the Brit started a website called Vegan Sidekick (www.vegansidekick.com) where he posts “crappy cartoons”—simple line drawings of figures engaged in dialogue, like one depicting a vegan who says he avoids harming animals to a meat eater who then responds with a what-about-the-feelings-of-plants comeback. The meat eater’s “Plants tho” defense has become Sidekick’s double entendre tagline. It’s a funny way to illustrate a typical argument herbivores hear. Watts gets some intense comments from trolls on his Facebook page, writing treatises against the vegan viewpoint and becoming the embodiment of the comics, but Watts deals with them elegantly. For those in-the-closet vegans who are afraid of confrontations, this is helpful reading. Watts has also self-published a book of his work (two, actually: One is the dirty-mouth adult version) at www.lulu.com.