Morrissey, Meat and Norway

I see we've had Morrissey mouthing off again, comparing the mass murder in Norway to the way Macdonalds and KFC treat animals. I suppose being fair if anyone could say it a militant veggie is at least consistent, all killing is wrong, but he's wrong, in a lot of ways. I've said before that I don't think Meat is Murder, and I'm almost certain he said what he said to create a shitstorm and gain publicity, but anyway I'll still put this out there.

Meat for food tends to be bred as such, we tend not to kill random animals for our Dinner, and we don't just take a gun and go round shooting in public at anything that moves. If you don't want to eat meat or meat products do you just let the animals free, what do they eat? Or do you kill them and let the corpses rot? I understand the vegetarian arguments, I just disagree with them.

 Another thing in that article is where he says killing a Stag is like killing a child, quoted from an interview he did mentioning David Cameron. Wrong again, really. comparing hunters with paedophiles going a bit too far. It's attention seeking. We as a species eat meat. We've evolved eating meat. Some animals will eat us given the chance, so why not? I've taken more words than neccessary to call you it, but Morrissey, you're a dick.

Although one last thing, if you ever find it, read a Neil Gaiman short story called Babycakes. I think it was written for PETA, and basically it's about testing and food after the animals all disappear. And it may make you consider for a second. But I'll keep eating Meat.

Meats Not Murder

Had a conversation on twitter recently about eating meat, and how people don't always think about meat coming from animals, and I've now remembered this story about Mark Zuckerberg stopping eating meat, except that which he killed himself.

The relevant part of that as far as I'm concerned is the bit where he says:

 "I had a pig roast at my house. A bunch of people told me that even though they loved eating pork, they really didn't want to think about the fact that the pig used to be alive."

This does annoy me, if you're not prepared to accept your meat used to be walking about, don't eat it. Give up your bacon and become a vegetarian. As you're not a meat eater. You're might like the taste, but if you're not prepared to accept that your bacon roll used to be part of a pig or that your sirloin steak comes from a cow then you shouldn't be eating it. Animals as part of the food chain has been part of human existence for about as long as we've been on the planet. You have to accept that if you want to eat meat. I accept it and if it came to it would be prepared to kill my food, I'm not likely to have to anytime soon, but if you're not why eat meat?  


Vegetarianism is an acceptable lifestyle choice these days, we shouldn't do battery farming of chickens, or any other animal to get our food, but eating meat isn't wrong in my view. Treat them properly while alive, but always remember that they were when you eat them. 


And the perfect bacon roll should be a Scottish morning roll, smoked bacon, enough to mean you have to eat 2 layers each bite, butter. No Sauce needed, but a runny egg is acceptable on occasion.