WE DON'T NEED NO EDUCATION

Not enough room for this whole cartoon - you can click here or on the thumbnail to see it.

This is another "wha?" moment like the Jumble cartoon, especially considering one of the butts of jokes in this strip is a "vegan" who's consistently portrayed as knee-jerk, mindless, obsessive or hypocritical. More to the point, though, this one does succeed in making a point I've often put forward: The prime "educational" value of zoos is that it teaches kids that inflicting suffering and death on animals for our entertainment is normative.