Morrissey: Eating meat is the same as paedophilia

[Redfairen]

Eating meat is not murder, it's much worse than that, according to the celebrated miserablist and former Smiths singer Morrissey.

"I see no difference between eating animals and paedophilia," he said. "They are both rape, violence, murder. If I'm introduced to anyone who eats beings, I walk away."

.......

"Imagine, for example, if you were in a nightclub and someone said to you: 'Hello, I enjoy bloodshed, throat-slitting and the destruction of life,' well, I doubt if you'd want to exchange phone numbers," he said.

The insights were shared in a Q&A session on his fan website, True to You. Asked about his proudest achievement, he said it was persuading many people to stop eating meat. "If you believe in the abattoir then you would support Auschwitz. There's no difference."

But he wasn't done: "If Jamie 'Orrible is so certain that flesh-food is tasty then why doesn't he stick one of his children in a microwave?" he asked. And of Cilla Black preparing a leg of lamb recently on television: "Since a lamb is a baby, I wondered what kind of mind Cilla Black could possibly have that would convince her that eating a baby is OK?"


http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jan/03/morrissey-eating-meat-paedophilia-smiths

[Orrex]

1. I remember when he used to exist.

[mythology]

2. How to not win friends and influence people by Morrisey

I would like to get to the point of being a vegetarian for moral reasons, but this sort of thing just makes me facepalm.

[Lizzie Poppet]

3. Poppet: being a has-been is the same as...being a has-been.

Besides, the real talent in The Smiths was always Johnny Marr.

[shenmue]

4. A little bit off...

I love him, but even though I think it's probably good to be vegetarian, this is pushing it a little too far. To say a little.

[Eleanors38]

5. What experience(s) led him to this conclusion?

[Xipe Totec]

7. The experience of malnutrition, which can have a profound effect on reasoning abilities. nt

[Eleanors38]

38. Beats the alternative.

[postulater]

6. Morrissey? Didn't he drown in a bathtub in Paris?

[Warpy]

8. Morrissey is leading a very lonely life

Vegetarianism isn't for everybody and vegetarians on a moral crusade suck just like any other zealot.

Most of my meals are plant based, I just feel better that way. I know meat eaters who tried to go vegetarian and ended up feeling sick all the time. One size does not fit all.

[SidDithers]

9. I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour, but heaven knows I'm miserable now...nt

Sid

[Codeine]

17. Bigmouth strikes again,

and he's got no right to take his place in the human race.

[Ikonoklast]

10. He should stick to his racist views, it's reason enough to despise him.

What a twat.

[jmowreader]

11. Imagine, for example, if you were in a nightclub...

...and someone said to you: "Hello, I'm a Famous Alt Rock Star only about six people ever listened to and I haven't released a new album in five years but I want to remain relevant," well, I doubt if you'd want to exchange phone numbers.

[opiate69]

15. For the Win^^^^^

[bowens43]

13. Does that mean it's ok to eat children?

[bobclark86]

14. No, just have sex with them... apparently n/t

[Mnemosyne]

22. Only if they are cooked right. nt

[Codeine]

16. I'll admit my decision to stop eating meat was profoundly influenced

by this man over half a lifetime ago, but he still sounds like a douche here.

[spanone]

18. don't see the connection, don't care too...

fuck m

[dhill926]

19. been veg for 25 years....

and this is WAY over the top. Not helping your cause there, dude....

[Codeine]

21. Moz has the passion and judgmentalism of a brand-new vegetarian

mixed with the bitterness of an old man and the over-dramatic sensibilities of. . . well, Morrissey.

A bad combo.

[Eleanors38]

41. I doubt many associate Morrisey with veganism.

I eat regularly at a vegetarian restaurant whose staff knows I'm an omnivore who hunts deer, birds and small game, and who feels no need to piss at the altar of Ted Nugent.

[RebelOne]

20. This vegetarian agrees with him. n/t

[Doremus]

23. me too.

The truth isn't always easy to hear.

[onenote]

25. Then maybe you can explain

how exactly is eating meat like being a pedophile? I get how someone might claim that eating meat is just like being a cannibal (not that I would agree). But eating meat is like having sex with a child? What makes it more like having sex with a child than having sex with an adult?

Maybe you can help out the rest of us who think Morrissey's comparison makes no sense.

[cvoogt]

26. equally reprehensible

He means they are morally wrong to the same degree. That's how I read it.

Eating meat *is* eating "beings" who have, by and large, been mistreated, tortured, and killed in various horrible ways. I once saw some industrial chicken coops (just from the outside!) and subsequently have avoided the non-organic chicken, but to be honest I barely eat meat anymore and feel pretty conflicted about eating 'beings'. Why should I cause the suffering of another creature? On the other hand, bacon is delicious. I think in an ideal world we'd all personally kill any animals we eat (props to the hunters who eat their quarry), so that we have the courage of our convictions, but as it stands most of us outsource the killing to the meat industry so we can see meat as just something we buy in the store, rather than part of a dead creature. I saw some ribs at the grocery store today and all I could think was how gruesome that is. I can't contemplate killing an animal, so I feel I don't then have a right to eat animals either.

[RebelOne]

39. Thank you. Your post was a good comparison.

I couldn't have expressed it any better.

[Ranchemp.]

40. Great post.

I refuse to eat that chemical/steroid filled store bought meat or eggs, we raise our own chickens, hunt all of our meat, grow our own veggies, we're pretty much self sufficient.

[cvoogt]

43. That is fantastic

I have thought about raising chickens.. can't do it in my current neighborhood (I think) but long-term I plan to move and do that too. Not sure I see myself hunting, only out of emotional inability to kill an animal - intellectually I think it's totally fine if you do it yourself and eat it yourself, so kudos to you!

[Ranchemp.]

30. Yeah, except what's coming out of his piehole is a lie.

In no way is eating meat comparable to being a pedophile and I find it offensive that a few here are approving of his comparison.

[Eleanors38]

42. Gross insult becomes as casual as a Labrador Retriever's fart.

Kinda discredits the insulter.

[whistler162]

35. Obviously eating veggies only leads to mental issues!

[Nuclear Unicorn]

47. Apparently Mother Nature is a pedophile

[Johonny]

48. in the broccoli's book vegetarians are worse than murderers

I can't decide who I agree with; a washed up musical hack or my salad.

[TransitJohn]

24. What an asshole. eom

n/t

[Ranchemp.]

31. What's even worse is that a few here are actually agreeing with him.

[Kingofalldems]

32. Didn't you just say that upthread?

[Ranchemp.]

33. Yeah, and your point is........................?

[Kingofalldems]

34. Looks like an attack on DUers to me.

Point was made in one post.

[Ranchemp.]

36. Who cares what it looks like to you?

If you think so, then alert and take your best shot.

[cvoogt]

44. And we can't have that now can we?

Perhaps his comparison is not as crazy as it first appears, when you think of it as both being equally reprehensible. Obviously Morrissey considers it as bad as pedophilia since he considers meat murder.

[ProgressSaves]

27. Nope.

Eating meat is the same as having consensual sex and having multiple orgasms.

Deal, veggie breath.

[longship]

28. Morrissey: Idiot! nt

[sakabatou]

29. Dafuq?

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

37. Dr. Forrester and TV's Frank freeze dry Morrissey

[Codeine]

45. When that first aired I nearly passed out from laughing.

I'm the biggest, most pathetic Morrissey fanboy ever, and I still found that Invention Exchange bit to be absolutely hysterical.

[HappyMe]

46. Morrissey: Washed up asshat

Didn't he say something about stuffing Jamie Oliver's kid into a microwave?

Being a pedophile isn't the same thing as enjoying a cheeseburger. This idiot should just crawl back into obscurity.