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To be fair, whilst I don't agree, he is known for his involvement in animal rights issues and I'd imagine he's seen for himself the conditions the animals reared for us at McDonalds and KFC have to endure before being slaughtered. I can imagine them being absolutely horrific.

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I love his music but the bloke talks some utter sh*te at times.

 

This. He makes a point about the rights of animals but it's in poor taste to compare it to Norway.

 

He does seem to prefer animals to humans- when he played a gig in Canada (I think) and smelt meat cooking on a BBQ he said something like 'I can only hope it's human' before walking off.

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As humans, I suppose it's natural to see the value of life from a human perspective. I presume another animal would, in turn, see it from its own. Is it reasonable to see the loss of human life and the loss of animal life as at least comparable? It's complex for me, but I'm not offended by Morrissey's words.

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Can't see what all the fuss is about tbh. Most of the criticism is coming from people who seem to suggest that he has implied the Norway killings weren't a bad thing, which he clearly didn't say and doesn't think. His point, whether we agree or not, was that the daily slaughter of animals by major fast food chains is on a much larger scale than the one-off death of 97 humans. In all, he was trying to stress how murderous a society we live in. I can't help thinking that many who claim his remarks are offensive have actually missed the point. FWIW worth, I'm not a vegetarian and had a foot-long turkey and ham sub from Subway today so I guess I'm 'guilty'.

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He might love animals, but how does he feel about Lions and Tigers and other carnivores?

 

In the natural world, there are food chains and food webs. Within them, there are natural predators and prey.

 

Predators are there to keep the prey species in check. It's a natural order of things. I'm no expert but you only have to think of examples where insecticides have killed predators and as a result prey species have run out of control. Ladybirds and Aphids, anyone?

Some species are there purely as prey. What other useful purpose does plankton and krill serve, other than as a food source for fish, whales, etc?

 

Is Morrissey happy with what Lions, Tigers and other predators do? Or would he like them exterminated?

 

I know the argument with human vegetarians is that as conscious animals we are able to divine that we can survive without eating meat, and that we can make a decision not to do so.

 

But we evolved as true omnivores, and it's only the fact that now as a higher species we are able to think about predation that gives Human vegetarians that get out.

 

I was shocked to see a TV programme not too many years back that showed Chimpanzees are not only carnivorous, but will prey on other species of monkey or ape. It shocked me out of my perception that chimps were just jolly consumers of bananas and cups of tea.

 

As for linking the consumption of meat with what happened in Norway, he's just an insensitive knob, who has probably got an upcoming album to get publicity for.

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