The former Smiths frontman praises the late pop star’s veganism and compares the media coverage given to the Queen with that allotted to the purple oneIt is a special kind of wordsmith who can pay tribute to a music icon,and yet still manage to turn it into a dig at the British royal family and a piece of pro-vegan propaganda. Morrissey is that wordsmith. In a statement, released to his fansite True to You, or the former Smiths frontman paid tribute to Prince,who died final week aged 57. He wrote: “Although a long-serving vegan and a strong advocate of the abolition of the abattoir, neither of these points was mentioned in the one hundred television reports that I witnessed yesterday as they covered the enchanted life and unhappy death of Prince. The points were not mentioned because they are identified as expressions against e$tabli$hment interests, and therefore we,mere galley slaves, aren’t allowed to know.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com