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And Finally
Morrissey defends Norway comments
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 1 August 2011
Morrissey has defended comments he made on stage in Poland last week, in which he compared the recent massacre in Norway to the actions of fast food companies. As previously reported, before performing Smiths song ‘Meat Is Murder’, the singer said: “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 Shit every day”.
Although a spokesperson initially told the Mirror that Moz would be making no further comment on the matter, last week he spoke to fansite True To You in an attempt to calm the controversy that has blown up around him in the last seven days.
He said: “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”.
He continued: “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”.
And finally: “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'”.
I don’t think we really needed a lengthy clarification to know that’s what Morrissey was trying to say with his on-stage proclamation. Nor does it change the fact that it sounded rather bad.
