From Marc 3 Poirier Sent Tue, May 11th 1999, 22:26
From Marc 3 Poirier Sent Tue, May 11th 1999, 22:26
> Consolidated made a distinct effort to produce intensely
> groove-oriented music in the early nineties.
>
> Basically, their political slant can be described as far-left
radical-vegan,
> anti-patriarchal and pro-feminist (if you'll permit the hyphens).
That statement, the part about "radical-vegan," is something I've never
understood too well, the idea that veganism is radical. Yet it's phrased
that way so often. "I'm NOT going to pay for & eat corpses, supporting an
industry that confines, tortures, manipulates, drugs, deforms, &
canabilizes billions of feeling creatures every year, as well as severely
speeding up the environmental destruction of the earth, primarily
contributing to almost all health-related illnesses in affluent countries
(about three-quarters of all deaths in the U.S.), & increasing the amount
of malnutrition & starvation in poorer, undeveloped countries. No, I won't
do that even though meat & dairy tastes good." THAT'S radical? It really
baffles me. It's just peaceful, kind, & simple.
I'm not trying to be personally disparaging towards Fred Church & what he
wrote above, I've heard comments like that from a lot of people, but it's
still pretty inexplicable to me.
Marc Poirier