“Meat is murder” became a slogan of some vegetarians/vegans in the early 1980s. Carnivores (meat eaters) struck back with: “Meat is murder. Tasty, tasty murder.” The carnivore response has been cited in print since at least 2004 and is frequently seen on T-shirts.
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Meat is murder. Tasty, tasty murder.
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13 December 1982, The Age (Melbourne, Australia), “Animal welfare goes to war in UK” by Margaret Jones, pg. 13, col. 6:
Even the Vegetarian Society has become militant, and this week it picked that holy of holies, the Royal Smithfield Show at Earl’s Court. Exhibitors had to run the gauntlet of shouting protesters holding placards which proclaimed: meat is murder.
23 November 1984, Miami (FL) Herald, “Vegetarians gobble tofu, never turkey,” pg. 1BR:
I dont want to sound radical, whispered Danna Pantak of Fort Lauderdale, who wore a button reading: Meat is Murder.
OCLC WorldCat record
Meat is murder
Author: Johnny Marr; Smiths (Musical group)
Publisher: London : Warner Bros. Music : Distributed by International Music Publications, ©1985.
Edition/Format: Musical score : English
OCLC WorldCat record
Meat is murder! : an illustrated guide to cannibal culture
Author: Mikita Brottman
Publisher: London : Creation Books, 1997.
Edition/Format: Book : English
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rotarygod
02-22-2004, 01:33 AM
“Meat is murder, tasty tasty murder!”
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davemolina
Aug-18-2005 23:44
Meat is Murder…tasty, tasty murder.
New York (NY) Times
The Anti-Restaurants
By MELENA RYZIK
Published: August 26, 2008
HOMER, N.Y.
(...)
For each course, Ms. Newberry, in cut-offs and a T-shirt that read, “Meat Is Murder — Tasty, Tasty Murder,” would emerge from her galley kitchen, barely shouting distance away from the two butcher-paper-covered tables set up in her living room, to describe the dishes.
NPR
A Stroll Along An ‘Un-Conventional’ Denver Street
by Linton Weeks
August 28, 2008
(...)
“My favorite,” he says, “was a woman who came up wearing a T-shirt that read, ‘Meat Is Murder, Tasty Tasty Murder.’”
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