One day, Penny and Dr. Crygor went to the Diamond City Petting Zoo, Dr. Crygor was trying a feed a can to a goat, goading it, "Come on, eat the can. Come on!"

Mike reminded him, "You're supposed to feed it pellets from that machine."

Meanwhile, Penny was petting a little lamb, telling it, "Aw. You are so cute, yes you are. I love holding you."

She giggled when the lamb licked her face.

Hours later, Dr. Crygor served Penny dinner at his lab. He served lamb, but that made her think about the lamb she petted, Penny heard it talk in her head, "Please, Penny. Don't eat me. I though you loved me."

Penny just sat there, not saying anything or moving a muscle, her grandpa was concerned and asked, "Something wrong, Penny?"

"I can't eat this. I can't eat a poor little lamb."

"This is lamb, not a lamb."

"What's the difference between this lamb and the one that kissed me?"

Doris 1 answered, "This one spent two hours in the broiler."

Her granddad then asked, "I can make something else if you want. You like chicken breasts?"

She thought of a chicken being killed and served on a plate, she said, "No."

"Rump roast?"

Penny thought of a slaughtered cow being cooked and said, "No."

"Hot dogs?"

His granddaughter sweated at the thought of four random animals turning into a hot dog. Penny then told him, "No! I can't eat any of them."

"Penny, are you saying you're never going to eat any animal again? What about bacon?"

"No."

"Ham?"

"No."

"Pork chops?"

"Grandpa! Those all come from the same animal!"

"A wonderful, magical animal."


At the Peridot Campgrounds, Dr. Crygor had a little barbecue and invited some of his friends, including Jimmy T., Mona, Kat, Ana, Cricket and Mantis, much to Penny's chagrin. He filled up two barbecues with lighter fluid and lit them up, but before he could starting cooking of the chicken, pork or beef, Penny then said, "Guys, we don't have to eat meat. I made gazpacho for everyone."

People were murmuring, Kat asked, "What's gazpacho?"

"Tomato soup served ice cold."

Everyone laughed, Penny sadly put the bowl on a table and walked away. Everyone enjoyed all the meaty confections Dr. Crygor made. Penny was moping inside a cabin and bemoaned, "It's bad enough they're all eating meat. They don't have to rub it in my face."

She watched from a window as her grandfather had another grill and announced, "Ok, everyone. It's the moment you've all been waiting for."

He opened the grill and revealed a pig with an apple in its mouth, saying, "Behold, the pig de resistance."

Everyone marveled at the pig, but for Penny, that was the last straw.

Penny stole the pig, pushing the grill out of the campground and up a steep slope, while Dr. Crygor shouted, "Penny! No!"

He chased after her. When Penny got to the top of the slope, the grill started rolling downhill, building up speed. Her old man now chased after the grill while it rolled into a street and through a hedge. Dr. Crygor assured himself, "It's just a little dirty. It's still good, it's still good!"

As Dr. Crygor kept running after the grill, it rolled into traffic (miraculously missing every car) and crashed into a bridge railing. The pig kept going and ended up splashing into the river. He said, "It's just a little slimy. It's still good, it's still good!"

The pig floated downstream to a dam where it got caught in the spillway, blocking it. Water built up behind the pig until the pressure pushes the pig the rest of the way through the spillway, blasting it into the sky. Dr. Crygor watched from on top of the dam, "It's just a little airborne. It's still good, it's still good! Oh, who am I kidding? It's gone!"

After the pig incident, Dr. Crygor sobbed hysterically, he cried while walking back to the barbecue, then he got angry and yelled, "Penny, you ruined my barbecue! I demand you apologize right now!"

However, Penny shouted, "No! I'm never, ever apologizing because I was standing up for a just cause and you were wrong, wrong WRONG! Would it kill you to not eat poor animals?!"

"I don't need serving suggestions from a barbecue wrecking brat!"

"THAT'S IT! I DO NOT WANT A PREHISTORIC CARNIVORE AS A GRANDPA! I AM OUT OF HERE!"

As Penny stormed off, being called a prehistoric carnivore hurt her grandpa's feelings. He slowly transitioned from being angry to sad as she walked out of his sight.

Penny saw media influences everywhere saying to eat meat in Diamond City, from Gigantaburger's beef-flavored chicken burgers to a hosptial billboard chaging from saying not to eat beef to saying to eat deer.

She headed to a gas station convenience store and sees a deal where one coin can buy 8 hot dogs, she groaned, "Ugh! The whole world wants me to eat meat. I just can't fight it anymore."

Caving in, Penny reluctantly bought a hot dog and slowly took a bite, she then asked in a lamenting tone, "There. Is everybody happy now?"

Then, Joe asked her, "I take it that you like my tofu dogs, Penny?"

"Tofu?"

"No meat whatsoever and only a fraction of the fat of a normal hot dog. I made the switch and nobody noticed."

"But why, Joe?"

"I'm a vegetarian. Check out my shirt."

On a hanger, Joe showed it to her. It had a cow with a red slash through it, and a caption reading, "Don't have a cow, man!"

Penny giggled, "That's cute."

"In fact, I have my own line of vegetarian entrées. The point is, Penny, I know how hard it is to be a vegetarian."

"That's why I ran away. When will all those fools learn that you can be perfectly healthy simply eating vegetables, fruits, grains and cheese?"

Joe then remarked, "Cheese? Ew."

"You don't eat cheese, Joe?"

"No, I don't eat any food that comes from an animal."

"Oh, then you must think I'm a monster."

"Yes, indeed, I do think that. However, I learned long ago, Penny, to tolerate others rather than forcing my beliefs on them. You know you can influence people without badgering them always. It's like the song, "Live and Let Die". It had a good rhythm."

"I guess I have been pretty hard on a lot of people. Especially my grandpa. Thank you, Joe."

Penny took her leave and started walking home, she saw Dr. Crygor looking everywhere for her, including under manhole covers, calling out, "Penny! Penny! Penny, come back before everyone finds out what a horrible grandfather I am!"

She said to him with a hint of nervousness in her voice, "H-hi, grandpa."

He saw Penny and was relieved, "Oh, thank heavens you're ok. I want to apologize. I don't know exactly what went wrong, but it's always my fault."

"Actually, grandpa, this time, it's me that should be sorry. While I was gone, I got some really good advice from Joe. I still stand by my beliefs, but I can't defend what I did and I can't force you to change who you are. I'm sorry I messed up your barbecue."

"I understand, honey. I used to strongly believe in things when I was your age. Come here, you."

Penny and Dr. Crygor hugged it out for a little bit, then he said, "How about I give you a piggy-back...I mean a veggie-back ride home?"

Dr. Crygor carried his granddaughter on his back, they laughed as they returned home.