Morrissey Says Norway Massacre Is 'Nothing' Compared to Fast-Food Business

i find most of the people on here commenting to be very ignorant & biased. your arguments & one-sentence snide remarks aren't in any way intelligent or logical. how about before you shoot the man down, why don't you investigate on WHY he chose to compare Norway's incident to fast food's agricultural business? it's so easy to ****, piss, & spew venom, but for the love of God & all things supernatural, don't ******* pick up a book & read it, or do some research for your goddamned selves. just keep watching the news @ 10, ya sheep. it's great to have an opinion but to be stupid on top of it just makes me want to go homicidal.

This guy is an idiot! NOBODY tells ME what to eat. Nobody is forcing HIM to eat fast food.

Dining with vegetarian friends in San Diego in the summer of 1984, it was related how a man had recently snapped, told his wife he was going to "hunt humans" and went out and killed customers at the local McDonald's.

"Instant karma!" exclaimed a couple of the women present, upon learning of the incident.

A Hindu-American friend of mine, originally from San Diego but in college at UC Berkeley, mused at the time that maybe the McDonald's shooting incident would cause the fast-food corporation to promote a nonviolent agenda and menu -- one which doesn't involve the killing of animals!

For those of us who are vegetarian or vegan because of compassion for animal, Morrissey's comments are familiar, and not the least extreme.

In the beginning of the 19th century, the poet Shelley, an atheist, a socialist, and a vegetarian, first became interested in vegetarianism as a student at Oxford.

In his essay, "A Vindication of a Natural Diet," Shelley wrote:

"Comparative anatomy teaches us that man resembles the frugivorous animals in everything, the carnivorous in nothing...It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite loathing and disgust...

"Man resembles no carnivorous animal. There is no exception, unless man be one, to the rule of herbivorous animals having cellulated colons. The orang-outang is the most anthropomorphous (manlike) of the ape tribe, all of whom are strictly frugivorous.

"There is no other species of animals which live on different foods in which this analogy exists...The structure of the human frame then, is that of one fitted to a pure vegetable diet in every essential particular."

George Bernard Shaw said it was through reading Shelley that his eyes were opened to the "savagery" of killing animals for food.

Dr. Tom Regan, the foremost intellectual leader of the animal rights movement and author of The Case for Animal Rights (a landmark in moral philosophy, comparable to Rawls' A Theory of Justice) said it was through reading Gandhi during the Vietnam War which caused him to realize the fork can also be a weapon of violence.

Pacifists refuse to kill during wartime.
Vegetarians refuse to kill during mealtime.

Where do you think meat comes from?!
To put meat on the table, an animal has to be put to death!

In the February 1995 issue of Harmony: Voices for a Just Future, a "consistent-ethic" periodical on the religious left, Brother David Steindl-Rast, a Benedictine monk, attacked the modern, overcrowded confinement method of raising and killing animals for food ("factory farming"), when referring to them as "animal concentration camps."

Compared to statements made by vegetarians and vegans past and present, Morrissey's comments are routine and comparable to statements you'd find today on any vegetarian or vegan blog or website.

It is a big mistake by just about anyone to compare horrific events like the one in Norway to what they perceive as equally offensive acts. How many times to we hear people say "he or she is worst than Hitler" to get attention and dramatize their point. Morrissey is a great artist and he will admit only human and humans speak out sometimes without really thinking about affect of our words. He has made a career of using words to connect to his many fans. I eat meat but do agree with vegetarians on the treatment of animals. However realistically chickens and cows would disappear soon after everyone stopped eating them. They cannot live in nature as wild animals any longer that has been bred out of them. Eating is not going to disappear anytime soon but we could all stand to eat a lot less of it.

dude i want people like him to shut up and drop dead. seriously its annoying

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Another person with a large soap box pushing his beliefs on everyone else, stick to music, it's what your good at.

He looks like Rudolf Hess in that picture.

These veggies and antifur perople are disgusting- and far bigger pigs than the livestock eating they protest so vehemently.

Wake up!!! humans are onmivores and eat meat naturally.

The guy is reduced to taking gigs in Poland ... cut him some slack. ;-)