#756 Beyond Lies the Wub- Philip K. Dick
I guess “You are what you eat” is an apt adage for this story. Men and local creatures are loading a cargo ship when one crew member comes walking back with a huge pig-like creature called a Wub. It is a greatly respected animal around here and the crew member bought it for fifty cents. Looking like a pig, and being four-hundred pounds of potential food, Captain Franco wondered how it would taste.
Aboard the ship they had suffered some food spoilage, and the Captain now looked towards the wub again for a food source. Except the wub isn’t really a pig, it is a highly evolved race and has learned to defend itself with reason. It had accessed the minds of the passengers and “spoke” to the captain using some sort of ESP. Trying to philosophize his way out of the boiler, the Wub uses mythology to illustrate his usefulness. Ever wonder whether we’d still consume animals if they talked like us? Well, some life forms have a strong survival instinct.
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