The co-author of Meat Is Murder told author Neil Taylor that writing the song was one of the proudest moments of his life: "I think that is quite literally rock music changing someone's life,” he said in 2010. Johnny Marr performing in Hyde Park, July 2022. ![]() Since then, the star now owns a farm that produces some hugely-popular cheeses. The Blur bassist became vegetarian when he was at university - he called it his “passive attempt at being benevolent”. He says: “If you don’t want to be beaten, imprisoned, mutilated, killed or tortured, then you shouldn’t condone such behaviour towards anyone, be they human or not.” Moby became vegan in 1987: he released an album called Animal Rights and the liner notes to Play included an essay on why being a vegan is important. Moby at his vegetarian restaurant in Los Angeles, Little Pine. “I refuse to eat anything that had a mother, that’s obvious.” He only went fully vegan in 2015. “The truth is, vegans are actually superior beings,” he claimed in 2018. Second only to Macca as the most famous rock star veggie - former Smiths frontman wrote the anthemic Meat Is Murder, which turned a lot of people into vegetarians. ![]() ![]() Morrissey performing with The Smiths on the Meat Is Murder tour, April 1985. He explained in 2008: "Many years ago, I was fishing, and as I was reeling in the poor fish, I realised, ‘I am killing him - all for the passing pleasure it brings me'." Paul and wife Linda McCartney became passionate campaigners for the vegetarian lifestyle, with Linda launching a hugely-successful veggie food range and the musician and his daughters Stella and Mary introducing the "Meat-Free Monday" campaign in 2009. Probably the world’s most high-profile vegetarian celebrity, the former Beatle gave up meat in the mid-1970s. Paul and Linda McCartney launch Linda's new vegetarian food range, April 1991. It's World Vegetarian Day, so to celebrate, take a look at some of the most high profile veggies and vegans in rock - and why they made the decision to give up meat and animal products.
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