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Big Mouth Strikes again: Morrissey ‘Norway massacre ‘nothing compared to what happens at McDonald’s and KFC’

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Big Mouth Strikes again: Morrissey ‘Norway massacre ‘nothing compared to what happens at McDonald’s and KFC’

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Even the news of the passing Amy Winehouse was rather over shadowed on the weekend with the tragic deaths of (at least) 76 people who were killed in Norway on Friday. When Anders Behring Breivik launched a bomb attack in Oslo before shooting dozens of teenagers on the island of Utoya. We send everyone involved our deepest condolences.

The attacks sparked widespread outrage and condemnation around the world, but singer former Smiths frontman Morrissey has drawn criticism after comparing the attacks to the killing of animals by fast food chains at a gig in Warsaw on Sunday.

The Daily Mirror reports he told the crowd before singing Meat Is Murder: ‘We all live in a murderous world, as the events in Norway have shown, with 97 dead.

‘Though that is nothing compared to what happens in McDonald’s and Kentucky Fried S*** every day.’

A famous vegetarian who has just this summer changed entire menus to meat free at certain festivals. Morrissey is known for being outspoken on animal rights issues, once branding Chinese people a ‘sub-species’ because of their treatment of animals.


Morrissey isn’t a stanger to stirring the pot, he also courted controversy with his brandishment of the Union Jack and what some considered to be bordering on ‘nationalistic’ views back in the early 90. While his thoughts on immigration in an NME interview a few years ago, lead many to question his beliefs. Still without a record company some may wonder whether Morrissey has gone too far this time, and whether he is just saying things for affect and to raise his public profile.

Morrissey appears to stand by his comments, with a spokesman saying: ‘Morrissey has decided not to comment any further as he believes his statement speaks for itself.’

Orginal source: http://www.metro.co.uk/music/870664-morrissey-says-norway-massacre-nothing-compared-to-actions-of-kfc#ixzz1TP9p40ZZ

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  1. I must admit, I remember walking past an open van delivering carcasses to a butcher’s a day or 2 after the event, and the same thought occurred to me. I’m not a vegetarian, but that doesn’t mean I can’t see the human race as being barbaric on epic proportions, and hypocritcal in that when a few of our own species die, we are supposed to be shocked and appalled.

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  2. Morrissey has responded. I don’t think its so much his right to that opinion, its more his linking of it with a massacre.

    ‘The recent killings in Norway were horrific. As usual in such cases, the media give the killer exactly what he wants: worldwide fame. We aren’t told the names of the people who were killed– almost as if they are not considered to be important enough, yet the media frenzy to turn the killer into a Jack The Ripper star is…. repulsive. He should be un-named, not photographed, and quietly led away.

    The comment I made onstage at Warsaw could be further explained this way: Millions of beings are routinely murdered every single day in order to fund profits for McDonalds and KFCruelty, but because these murders are protected by laws, we are asked to feel indifferent about the killings, and to not even dare question them.

    If you quite rightly feel horrified at the Norway killings, then it surely naturally follows that you feel horror at the murder of ANY innocent being. You cannot ignore animal suffering simply because animals “are not us.”‘

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  3. Their may very well be some certain teniuos truths in that statement, but the two events aren’t related. Its silly to propose that because you don’t protest about the slaughter of animals for our own purpose, then you can’t feel revulsion at a man who kills a hundred of your fellow citazens.
    Seem’s in some way a naive pronoucement, and especially antognistic. If he seeks to open up a debate, there are better ways to do it, or channel it.

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  4. Yes, actually, I think you’re both right. Yes, our treatment of animals may be pretty appalling but also, yes, awful timing by Morrissey. And I also agree with you completely Bill that it’s so sad that this idiot’s views are given so much coverage. Partly because of his targets themselves being directly political (ie. aimed directly at the government itself) is the reason, but still, sick of hearing what he himself has to say.

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  5. Bullshit – I congratulate him for capitalising (if he did of course)… not bad timing, exquisite timing, most humans need their faces pushed in the shit to smell the stench of their own selfish lifestyles.

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  6. I was really weighing this one up in my head for a while, I think the only misguided thing about Morrissey’s remark is his timing but only in as much as he could be seen as being insensitive to the families of the victims of Norway’s truly sad and tragic events. However, I don’t think that is Morrissey’s intention and I do not think he is saying anything that could be misconstrued as ‘human life is meaningless and the loss of human life holds no sadness to me.’

    His additional response gets me on his side further, because really if you have a sense of scientific intelligence then we are all animals, and I find it interesting that Dominic alluded to ‘our fellow citizens’ because that’s the key differentiation, why aren’t pigs and chickens and cows ‘our fellow citizens’?

    Now, I’m not going to say everyone should be a vegetarian, but I think there’s a lot of barbarism in how some people farm animals for meat, and, well, so many more issues to go into than I probably should try and squeeze into this comment box! I hope that most people would retain an awareness and a concern for where their meat is coming from, and I really hope that the corporations Morrissey name checks get stringently assessed and monitored, though as documentaries such as Super Size Me made all too clear that’s not really the case, and I find it really shocking that anywhere is still allowed to sell (or even produce) battery farm eggs.

    Anyway, I could go on, but every sentence I’ve uttered so far probably needs an essay stapled to it to really examine the finer points!

    I think Morrissey in a slightly misguided way makes some very interesting points here and to some extent I agree with him on the issue writ large.

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