I was a vegetarian before. Hare Krishna! But "Meat is murder" was a REAL eye opener when it came out. A very very important record. Even though it didn't make everyone become vegetarian, at least it made lots and lots of people aware of vegetarianism in the first place. Vegetarianism in the 80's England was not the big business what it is today; it's easy to buy lots of different vege products in the supermarkets these days. But you had to be more innovative in the 80's! I think people lived on bread & cheese, baked beans, pasta and peanut butter.

I was a vegetarian before I heard the Smiths after watching a documentary on TV as a kid about the meat industry and how animals are slaughtered. I do have to say that although 'Meat Is Murder' isn't a bad song - it is by the Smiths after all - it is undoubtedly one of their weakest. Polemic and art are usually a very bad combination and I have never been a huge fan of that song. Great album though. As for vegetarianism - do your digestive tract a favour and go vege. The best thing you can do for your health short of taking up physical exercise. It's better for the planet too. Do I miss eating meat? No, not at all.

and I am afraid I never will be but still I was quite touched when I first heard "Meat is murder".

I loved "How Soon is Now" on the radio and thought I should check out this band. But then I heard that the record was called "Meat is Murder" and I thought that was too preachy and weird so I didn't buy it.

It was only after "Big Mouth" came out that I decided I needed to check them out. Fell in love with "TQID" and then bought all the other albums.

Never been a veggie, but I rarely eat red meat.

I went vegetarian at fourteen, after picking up a pamphlet from the PETA booth at a Metallica concert (which is sort of ironic, since their singer is an avid hunter for sport). for the first few years of it, I was the only person I knew who didn't eat meat. when I first became aware that a band called The Smiths had an album called "Meat is Murder," I was intrigued. This was only one element of many that endeared The Smiths to me. Likewise, the UK band Conflict with the single "To A Nation of Animal Lovers" appealed to me for many reasons, one of which being their outspoken support of a vegetarian diet.

1998 1994

but I'm not a big meat eater, due to my
poor physical condition I eat food which is
not heavy on me stomach

Just 6 times a day, little parts

fruits, corn flaces sorta with yogurth, rise
with vegetabes, or italian like spagetti with
sause, in there sometimes is some meat

I deliberitely avoid chicken meat, it's most
dangerous and get foodpoison.

I don't need it, really, but can't say I'm
a vegan

I fackin lav meat!
but also respect those that are veggies
more for the rest of us

why are vegans so considered with how animals die? i mean if animals were killed in a proper way would you still eat them?

I think Kosher should be the standard - but - we're carnivore's and that's all there is to it. Meat is Murder is a song I avoid - not out of shame, out of lame. It's a 12 hour opus to cattle. Does Morrissey even own a farm? An animal refuge? Or is it all about placing responsibility on PETA and everyone else?

Thanks to Lady CaCa's photo with MOZ I realize . . . I don't eat enough animal. (dumb. i'm joking. she's dumb.)

Oh and - Vegetarians age prematurely. Sorry - it's true. Bad skin.

I saw a pig slaughtered the old way right in front of me when I was six and did not become vegetarian. "Meat is murder" was nothing like a shock after that.

I praise vegetarians for the effort they make (I couldn't do it) but refuse to consider vegetarianism a moral virtue. Nobody is better than anyone else for not eating animals. Whatever Morrissey says, killing animals for eating is right. Is the way you treat the animal when alive and the way you kill it that counts. I respect animals precisely because they provide me something as important as food. If you don't understand this maybe you should not call yourselves openminded, tolerant and all the usual rubbish.

By the way, I like Morrissey's music (much more than some of his ideas).

 

instead of sausage patties and bacon. Does this count?

The mere fact that this poll has received so few comments is of interest.

For the vegetarians, the refusal to eat meat is a sheer matter of principle. There's no need for a living thing to suffer and die in order for oneself to live - that's that.

Yet, I am surprised at how little contention and debate there is to be seen here. Is it so that the missionary crusade of vegetarianism has flagged? By which I mean, the belief that the human consumption of meat might one day be consigned to the past?

It seems to me that the matter has now settled into mutually reviling but essentially resigned camps - neither will fully accept the ways of the other, yet both are powerless to fundamentally influence the same, so a kind of detante has come to exist.

As between the establishments of the major religions at this time, curiously.

How do vegeterians feed their pets (cats and dogs)?

Youth Of Today probably had more of an effect on me going vegetarian when I did, if anyone, but it didn't hurt that Moz shared the same ideals when I eventually got into him. I can't say I'm very active in animal rights issues or anything like that, and for the most part I'm probably mostly vegetarian of old habit. But I will most certainly never eat meat again, and that's a promise.

they're delicious! jaja