Snickers
05-jul-2009, 18:01
Me voy a fiar de lo q dirá esta gente, q parece maja, :D
http://veganic.net/articles.htm
http://veganic.net/images/Chrissie-playing-outdoors.jpg
THE GREAT PRETENDER
Chrissie Hynde comes over all mealy-mouthed and timid (nah, just kidding).
IN 1978 rock legend Chrissie Hynde formed The Pretenders. With her trademark dark fringe, outspoken views and “anti-fashion” look, she’s remained the epitome of cool and set many a guy and girl’s heart racing for the past three decades. Nowadays she uses her celebrity platform to campaign for animal rights in her role as PETA spokeswoman, even going so far as to get herself arrested for the cause. She spoke with Katrina Fox.
When did you first become vegetarian?
In 1969, when I was 17. I had never met a vegetarian.
So what led you to it?
I follow an Indian Vedic philosophy in which the cow is a sacred animal. If you kill a cow, you will come back as a cow for as many lifetimes as the cow has hairs on her body. That’s a lot of suffering.
You said in an interview in 2004 that you are “not interested in gender issues”. What did you mean?
I have never thought in terms of female, gay, Jewish and so on. I think in terms of meat eater and non-meat eater – that’s how I see the world. So I can’t feature gender issues but that’s how I see things. What I say is, “I won’t eat you if you don’t eat me”, “I won’t kill you if you won’t kill me” – to me, that’s a nice fair way of getting through the world.
Are you disappointed that more musicians aren’t vegetarian, if not vegan?
I got into the game in the late ’70s and being a product of the ’60s I thought by now everyone in music would be more conscious than other people because we were cooler and living outside the box and in rock bands. I assumed all the hippies from the late ’60s … I thought everyone in music would be vegetarians. Not so. It’s real disappointing when I walk into a recording studio and some idiot walks in and says, “I’m going out to Burger King, does anyone want anything?” and I’m sitting there thinking, “yeah, I want you to fuck off”. But he’s our tape op, so I’m like, “Who are you people?” What I’ve noticed – and I’ve been in this rock band for almost 30 years – is that all my mates are on the outside, marginal elements of society because straight people and wealthy people are not very interesting. See, because I have a hippy mentality, straight to me doesn’t mean “not gay”, being straight means the Establishment. That’s why I don’t get into the gender thing.
As a celebrity, you get to stand up on a platform and speak about a good cause. How do you feel about that?
The unfortunate part is people look to celebrities for their answers because, dare I say, there are no spiritual leaders. So they think that idiots, because they’re on a magazine cover, might have some insight on how to live your life when really the only person who can live your life for you is you. People are natural born followers and imitators so they’ll imitate someone else doing something because they think that person must be cooler than they are. But our only real thing is our own self-realisation, which is a very personal path that everyone is on. On the other hand, when I was a cocktail waitress no one cared what I thought about things. So I can see the beauty of having the platform, but whether I want it or not is something else.
http://veganic.net/articles.htm
http://veganic.net/images/Chrissie-playing-outdoors.jpg
THE GREAT PRETENDER
Chrissie Hynde comes over all mealy-mouthed and timid (nah, just kidding).
IN 1978 rock legend Chrissie Hynde formed The Pretenders. With her trademark dark fringe, outspoken views and “anti-fashion” look, she’s remained the epitome of cool and set many a guy and girl’s heart racing for the past three decades. Nowadays she uses her celebrity platform to campaign for animal rights in her role as PETA spokeswoman, even going so far as to get herself arrested for the cause. She spoke with Katrina Fox.
When did you first become vegetarian?
In 1969, when I was 17. I had never met a vegetarian.
So what led you to it?
I follow an Indian Vedic philosophy in which the cow is a sacred animal. If you kill a cow, you will come back as a cow for as many lifetimes as the cow has hairs on her body. That’s a lot of suffering.
You said in an interview in 2004 that you are “not interested in gender issues”. What did you mean?
I have never thought in terms of female, gay, Jewish and so on. I think in terms of meat eater and non-meat eater – that’s how I see the world. So I can’t feature gender issues but that’s how I see things. What I say is, “I won’t eat you if you don’t eat me”, “I won’t kill you if you won’t kill me” – to me, that’s a nice fair way of getting through the world.
Are you disappointed that more musicians aren’t vegetarian, if not vegan?
I got into the game in the late ’70s and being a product of the ’60s I thought by now everyone in music would be more conscious than other people because we were cooler and living outside the box and in rock bands. I assumed all the hippies from the late ’60s … I thought everyone in music would be vegetarians. Not so. It’s real disappointing when I walk into a recording studio and some idiot walks in and says, “I’m going out to Burger King, does anyone want anything?” and I’m sitting there thinking, “yeah, I want you to fuck off”. But he’s our tape op, so I’m like, “Who are you people?” What I’ve noticed – and I’ve been in this rock band for almost 30 years – is that all my mates are on the outside, marginal elements of society because straight people and wealthy people are not very interesting. See, because I have a hippy mentality, straight to me doesn’t mean “not gay”, being straight means the Establishment. That’s why I don’t get into the gender thing.
As a celebrity, you get to stand up on a platform and speak about a good cause. How do you feel about that?
The unfortunate part is people look to celebrities for their answers because, dare I say, there are no spiritual leaders. So they think that idiots, because they’re on a magazine cover, might have some insight on how to live your life when really the only person who can live your life for you is you. People are natural born followers and imitators so they’ll imitate someone else doing something because they think that person must be cooler than they are. But our only real thing is our own self-realisation, which is a very personal path that everyone is on. On the other hand, when I was a cocktail waitress no one cared what I thought about things. So I can see the beauty of having the platform, but whether I want it or not is something else.