Abby and Norma --- by Erika Hammerschmidt --- Jun 8, 2007

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TEXT OF COMIC:

When I don't want to eat eggplant, my parents tell me that I have to because there are starving people in Africa.

I asked them how I could possibly make life better for starving people in Africa by eating eggplant, and they wouldn't answer me.

It's a matter of principle, not logic. They just don't like the idea of a kid wasting her food when some people don't have enough food to eat.

But, by not eating my eggplant, I'm actually making MORE food available for other people. It's just that my parents are messing it all up, by buying me eggplant whether I eat it or not. They're the ones who are wasting the food.

I told you, it isn't a matter of logic. Parents won't argue logic with children. And if you don't believe me, just try it.

I won't eat this. I have no right to eat nutritious food when there are starving people in Africa.

I hereby revoke your privilege of visiting your cousin Abby.