{"id":771388,"date":"2023-01-23T08:18:09","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T13:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=771388"},"modified":"2023-01-23T08:44:26","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T13:44:26","slug":"punk-rock-vegan-movie-ahead-of-the-premiere-of-his-movie-moby-reflects-on-his-35-years-as-a-vegan-and-animal-rights-activism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=771388","title":{"rendered":"‘Punk Rock Vegan Movie’: Ahead of his movie premiere, Moby reflects on being vegan and animal rights activism"},"content":{"rendered":"\t
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The Animal Liberation Front, definitely, to a very large extent had its roots in the hardcore scene. Putting on a black hoodie and wearing a black face mask and sabotaging a vivisection lab.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n

NICK RUSKELL:<\/strong> Before he became a million-selling electronic artist in the \u201990s, Moby was a mover and shaker in New York\u2019s legendary \u201980s hardcore scene. As well as spawning killer music by bands like Cro-Mags, Gorilla Biscuits, Youth Of Today, Bad Brains, the Misfits and countless others from in and outside the city, the scene also turned the then-teenaged Moby on to the activism that ran parallel to the music. It was partly the influence of the scene and its messages that Moby quit meat and went vegan. Three-and-a-half decades on, he remains so, these days proudly sporting the words \u2018Vegan For Life\u2019 on his neck, and \u2018Animal\u2019 down his right arm, and \u2018Rights\u2019 down the other in thick, block capitals. It was this that helped Kerrang! identify him in a vegan restaurant in Los Angeles last summer (\u201cThank you for realising it was me,\u201d he laughs when we tell him. \u201cYou wouldn\u2019t believe how many people get disappointed when they realise I\u2019m not Michael Stipe from REM\u2026\u201d).<\/em><\/p>\n

This weekend, Moby\u2019s premiering his directorial debut, Punk Rock Vegan Movie, at the Slamdance Film Festival in Salt Lake City. In it, he examines the history of American punk and hardcore, and its intersection with veganism and animal rights activism, via interviews with the original British punk vegans like Crass\u2019 Steve Ignorant and The Damned\u2019s Captain Sensible, the old guard with whom he used to run like Ray Cappo and Porcell from Youth Of Today\/Shelter, Cro-Mags\u2019 John Joseph, Rob Zombie, Walter Schriefels from Gorilla Biscuits\/Rival Schools, Sepultura\u2019s Derrick Green and Minor Threat\/Fugazi frontman Ian McKaye, as well as those who were inspired by them, like Rise Against\u2019s Tim McIlrath, Fall Out Boy drummer Andy Hurley, Arch Enemy singer Alissa White-Gluz and Refused\u2019s Dennis Lyxz\u00e9n. Being a work of activism, Moby\u2019s also giving the film away for free immediately after the premiere. SOURCE…<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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