Posted on 04/15/2020 7:21:12 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
According to Queen guitarist and armchair epidemiologist Brian May, the coronavirus outbreak should be blamed squarely on meat eaters.
“This pandemic seemed to come from people eating animals, and it’s becoming more well known that eating animals is not the greatest thing for our health,” the 72-year-old tells NME.
“We’ve seen more of the effects of how eating animals has brought us to our knees as a species,” he continues. “I think it’s time to re-examine our world in a way that doesn’t abuse other species.”
May, who recently converted to veganism in January, tells the music news site that he planned to be “a bit more preachy about veganism because to me it is the way forward.”
May isn’t the only aging rocker to criticize the world’s gustatory predilections. Earlier this week, Paul McCartney pointed his finger at China’s wet markets, whose loose regulatory measures had been blamed for the outbreak.
“They might as well be letting off atomic bombs because it’s affecting the whole world,” the former Beatle told Howard Stern on his SiriusXM radio show. “Whoever is responsible for this is at war with the world and itself.”
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Just finished a leftover grilled lamb chop from Easter. Maybe I’ll have some bacon as I further contemplate his asinine claim.
There is an obvious joke about the lead singer but I am not doing it.
There's no zealot quite like the newly converted.
Keith Richards is still alive. He is not a vegan or vegetarian.
Betty White; same thing.
>>“This pandemic seemed to come from people eating animals, and it’s becoming more well known that eating animals is not the greatest thing for our health,” the 72-year-old tells NME.
avoiding all meat is bad for your health.
A. UK rockers opinion is almost as good as a Swedish 16 year old high school dropout’s opinion.
did he blame Freddie Mercury’s death on gay sex orgies and rug abuse?
Not to mention that both May and McCartney likely have to ingest copious amounts of Beano every day.
Rumors are that both have funded genetic engineering research to see if humans can grow second stomachs, so they can choose to be ruminants.( sarc.)
Put a little cud in your life!
Freddy Mercury was a “meat” eater...
Brian May is a brilliant guitarist and astrophysicist. As a dietitian, he is sadly lacking.
How does he know what the mad scientists in that Wuhan lab eat?
No, just ask one. And, like Fredo, push back on their idiocy and they’re deeply offended.
Just try to tell Third Worlders not to eat anything remotely resembling protein that they can scrounge up. I dare him... :)
twaddlepaot
Go to Chi-Chi’s Brian, and get extra scallions on your vegan nachos.
Oh wait, that place doesn’t exist any more. Wonder why?
You can only get foodborn illness from animals
“This pandemic seemed to come from people eating animals”
seemed
and most people on’t eat bat
There are toxic plants too
He does have a BS in Physics and a Phd in Astrophysics. Not quite the same as Greta. I'm surprised he isn't working on a vaccine in his spare time but he probably feels we deserve it.
I’d listen to this guy. He’s paid his dues, time after time. And I know that people would like him to serve a sentence, but he has committed no crime.
So let me get this straight. A 72-year-old man, who evidently ate all the meat he wanted for the first 71+ years of his life, has taken it upon himself to lecture the rest of us on our meat-eating ways after just three months of being a "vegetarian"?
I'm betting he loses his will-power at the first backyard barbecue this summer.
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