Break your mother's back! | Cyanide & Happiness

Cyanide naturally occurs in nature, which sounds alarming, doesn’t it? You do not want to eat cyanide. It is infamous because it shuts your body down quickly by stopping your cells from using oxygen. Your cells can still take in oxygen, but cyanide binds to the iron in your blood and blocks the process of turning oxygen into energy. Without energy, your body fails fast. In plants, cyanide is not floating around as pure poison. It is stored in compounds called glycosides. When the plant tissue is