It's not the first time Johnny's done this - he had some designer leather shoes out before:
https://www.morrissey-solo.com/article.pl?sid=07/05/17/1538239
I get the feeling Johnny follows a vegan diet, but clearly isn't 'fully vegan'. It's disappointing, but people are only human and I'll be charitable and hope someone can politely educate him about what being vegan means and persuade him to go the full monty. Let's not forget Morrissey has had similar issues in the past with wearing leather footwear, and of course his famous love of Kerrygold.
Vegan or fully vegan? is not the point.
This thread is about Marr making a profit from animal death, but at the same time seeming to care about animal rights.
Everyone seems to forget that Marr became vegetarian BECAUSE of the song Meat is Murder. ( also, at the time, he didn’t want to look a hypocrite by still eating meat while having a song like MIM and album called MIM. And I’m sure Angie being vegetarian already, played some part in his decision.)
NOT for the benefits of a healthy
diet …
“From the minute we made Meat is Murder I never ate meat again. Of course not; I couldn’t be hypocritical. It wasn’t much of a sacrifice, to be honest, as nutrition still meant nothing to me. If you look at photos from that time I’m 22-23 and seven stone.”
So
to reap the financial benefits of a leather product’s sale is not only hypocritical, but more importantly… bizarre.
Morrissey to my knowledge hasn’t done that.
Just so there’s not anymore deflecting from the Marr- apologists. And because this thread is not about Morrissey. Let’s get Morrissey’s so-called ‘criminal’ hypocrisies out of the way… there’s an old photo (in 85?) of him wearing what looks to be a leather jacket. And yes, we all know he’s worn/wears leather shoes, boots, sneakers, he’s admitted that himself. Supposedly he may have had at some point some furniture, rumor of a leather chair (??) lol. What else? Oh yeah, he wore a cashmere sweater once, possibly twice and there was dairy products on some tour rider, BIG WHOOP ! Some say .. Morrissey is so ‘preachy’ though, he doesn’t want people eating animals around him, but he still wears leather shoes, omg !
but this is different
Marr became a vegetarian because the song MIM made an impact on him. To say that Marr is probably only vegan in diet so he might not know or even cares where the skin came from to make those shoes that he’s profiting from, is ridiculous and certainly no alibi.
Money from murder. There’s no defense, and there’s nothing more to say.
"I am very proud of the fact that 20 years on people tell me they became a vegetarian as a result of 'Meat is Murder',"
"I think that is quite literally rock music changing someone's life - it's certainly changing the life of animals. It is one of the things I am most proud of."
‘Former The Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr has written to the Greek Minister of Tourism asking him to put an end to donkey ‘taxi’ rides in Santorini.
In his letter to Thanasis Theocharopoulos, the
vegan musician references a recent investigation by animal rights charity
PETA, the animal-ride trade in the country.
Now Marr has called on the minister to ‘put an end to this old-school practice of using animals as ‘beasts of burden’ and encourage tourists to use the port’s cable car – or their own two feet – Instead’.
In his letter, Marr refers to the animal rides as a ‘wretched practice’. He adds that donkeys and mules are forced to transport tourists up more than 500 steep steps, several times a day, from the port to the old town of Firá. When not being made to carry extremely heavy loads on their backs, they’re often tethered in the blazing sun without access to water or shade.’
Some quotes above that point to Marr’s concern for animal welfare. And yet ….
indeed.
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