Militant Vegan Bands

I thought the only militant vegans were the ALF, and they didn't target meat eaters, but they did target those who exploit, hurt and kill animals? Anyways, vegetarian isn't expensive. It's the same if not cheaper. Also, this is a loaded statement.

 

the only "militant vegan" bands I can think of are hardline straight edge bands like Vegan Reich, Chokehold, Raid, Earth Crisis and such.

 

It depends I suppose. If you want your militant vegan band to be steroid-free, you might want to avoid tough-guy hardcore.

Active Minds, Hello Bastards, Contravene, Banned from the Earth (from Bolivia), Room 101, Riot/Clone, Battle of Disarm, Active Slaughter all come to mind but there are many others worldwide.

 

You should avoid bands that suck

Also, wouldn't it be easier to ask which bands AREN'T militant vegan instead of which ones are? And what does PoC mean?

 

yea ALF are awesome http://www.animalliberationfront.com/

or try whale wars hah could not resist sorry.

some bands: crass,conflict,minor threat,D.O.A any anarcho-punk or straight edge,or hardcore bands have animal rights ideas (many of them)

 

Though I have never met anyone equating meat-eating with rape or claiming that starving to death is an option, I have read this kind of "theories" on animal rights board. To be honest, I don't think the punk scene and bands singing about veganism hold this sort of views. Some punks can still be pretty haughty and even arrogant towards the unwashed masses. It is also true that it is much easier to be vegan when you live in a big North American city than in other parts of the world (mind you, it was easier to be a vegetarian in Tucson than it is in Paris). But again I wouldn't worry too much about dodgy veganism as long as you stick to the good bands (Resist and Exist comes to mind) that keep social issues in mind when tackling the issue. There is also a trend called "vegans of colour" (I think) that challenges the white middle-class centered view of veganism.

 

PoC=Person of Color

 

Okay nevermind, looks like the PoC acronym was explained here.

Regarding this, my honest opinion man is that it's not eating meat that is the problem. It's the factory farms that exist that take creatures out of their natural living habitat, chain them, isolate them, put them through much more horrible, unnatural pain then is necessary. While white, I'm a descendent of the Native American Algonquin tribe on my grandma Bohannon's family, my father's mother's family. So, I think if the human population wasn't exterminating all other life on this planet and we lived as we once did, with the land, instead of off of it, I would say meat eating is fine. The thing is, I never give meat eaters shit. The dead flesh is arriving at the stores regardless of what consumers do. Sure, they could boycott it and go vegan or vegetarian, but capitalist society has shitloads of laws and subsidies in place that make it quite fucking difficult. I think my veganism is strongly related to an environmental aspect, as well as a stance against unnatural treatment of animals, and it's been effected by my few years as an anarcho-primitivist. Though, now, I think anacho-primitivism is a little nuts nowadays, I do think we need to scale civilization back, on a major scale. Going vegan or vegetarian does help with that, though, I think. I could elaborate more, but I need to run into work.

 

Yeah, vegans can be pretty racist, culturalist, speciesist, classist, and just absurd dicks. They can be pretty fucking funny. I agree with you 100%, keep posting man, stick around!

 

I don't understand why you think you can't be vegan if you not white. I also don't understand why anyone with a farm would have a problem growing vegetables.

 

I understand what you mean but these militant vegan types I think largely come from the hardline scene and the like. Bands like Vegan Reich and their associates. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardline_(subculture)

A lot of vegan bands and vegan anarchists are sympathetic to cultural and geographical differences. Plenty of vegans do hold the sort of ridiculous views you mentioned and these are the sort that spend most their time visiting animal sanctuaries as a form of political activity. These are also the sort of clowns that think that I should have stuck to herbal remedies to treat my cancer rather than the animal-tested chemotherapy that saved my life. Most the vegans I associate with, however, are against Western meat eating, or at least over-eating. The meat consumption in the US and Europe causes problems with animal welfare, environmental damage and also, significantly, the food issues in poorer nations. It is silly and bizarre, however, to consider that everybody in the world, especially in its current state, should go vegan. I'm sorry you've had to deal with so many arseholes. However, you, as everyone, should consider the arguments and possibility of going vegan.

 

definitely propagahndi

 

Yeah, but I still love Propagahndi. There would be, I suppose, Cattle Decapitation.

 

Something unknown - an old czech punk band Choré Vrány (1993). Their lyrics can be labeled as militant straight edge, especially songs: Říkám ti to do očí, Nucený výsek

Code:

http://www.ulozto.cz/x9poNYE/chore-vrany-rar

 

I love Riot/Clone. They only had one album dedicated to animal rights that I know of. Plus, I wouldn't consider them "tough-guy hxc". They have more of a crust punk or something like that.

 

Conflict and early Chumbawamba