Did the song 'Meat is Murder' make you veggie?
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MilaPatricia — 18 years ago(September 06, 2007 09:13 PM)
I always, on some level, hated myself for eating meat. When I heard the song for the first time, I agreed with it but I didn't quit eating meat. I was too young at the time and wasn't sure of myself enough to deal with my family's response. I had tried to quit eating meat when I wasmaybe 14 and it didn't go well. I was too young to buy my own food and my mom mainly cooked meat for the family. My brother mocked me and I was too pathetic to stick to my choice. I have always loved the entire album but never felt comfortable wearing a shirt for it because of the message. I actually didn't really listen to the song much, now that I think about it.
Now that I am comfortably a vegetarian I feel much better about wearing the shirt. I quit eating meat finally, mainly, because it gave me a stomach ache (either out of guilt or because it really didn't agree with my system), I don't want to eat animals, and because I never really liked meat, I always had to dress it up with something else. Meat, alone, tastes horrid.
So, Morrissey didn't turn me veggie. I'm sure he has turned many fans veggie and good for them; it's nice having such a solid figure to emulate. -
Cavr — 18 years ago(September 27, 2007 09:40 AM)
I don't know, I've thought about becoming a vegetarian on numerous occasions, also while listening to the song but I always come to the conclusion that it's natural for me as a human being to eat meat. The only thing I see something wrong with is the meat industry's treatment of animals.
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B_a_S_t_A_r_D — 18 years ago(February 02, 2008 03:57 AM)
I love the song and all, but I think you'd have to be really impressionable to turn veggie over a pop song that doesn't offer any shocking and unknown revelations on how animals are killed.
Every time Morrissey sings "the flesh you so fancifully fry isn't succulent tasty or kind" I want to ask "why not?"
As a lifelong Smiths and Morrissey fan, his militant vegetarianism is the only thing that has ever bothered me.
I know how you feel, when I heard my wife died I could barely finish my lunch -
MissIlsaLund — 17 years ago(July 19, 2008 06:40 PM)
I was raised vegetarian, but I didn't discover the Smiths until I was a teenager. I think if I wasn't already vegetarian, the song might sway me in that direction. It's haunting.
It's as red as the Daily Worker and just as sore! -
Rusholme_Ruffian — 17 years ago(November 02, 2008 01:37 PM)
I'm vegetarian, but not because of Morrissey. Meat tastes like beep and I always felt quite sick afterwards. My parents don't mind, although my grandma mocked me for a little while, which was completely unnecessary.
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tommyuk — 17 years ago(February 17, 2009 11:25 AM)
Musically Its not one of the best Smiths songs but its a fact that it did make a lot of people go veggie which is a healthier diet and the way the meat industry is run is a disgrace I agree with him on that I still eat meat would like to go veggie though not because of Morrissey but just from a health point of view.