From Marc 3 Poirier Sent Tue, May 11th 1999, 22:26
> Consolidated made a distinct effort to produce intensely > groove-oriented music in the early nineties. > > Basically, their political slant can be described as far-left radical-vegan, > anti-patriarchal and pro-feminist (if you'll permit the hyphens). That statement, the part about "radical-vegan," is something I've never understood too well, the idea that veganism is radical. Yet it's phrased that way so often. "I'm NOT going to pay for & eat corpses, supporting an industry that confines, tortures, manipulates, drugs, deforms, & canabilizes billions of feeling creatures every year, as well as severely speeding up the environmental destruction of the earth, primarily contributing to almost all health-related illnesses in affluent countries (about three-quarters of all deaths in the U.S.), & increasing the amount of malnutrition & starvation in poorer, undeveloped countries. No, I won't do that even though meat & dairy tastes good." THAT'S radical? It really baffles me. It's just peaceful, kind, & simple. I'm not trying to be personally disparaging towards Fred Church & what he wrote above, I've heard comments like that from a lot of people, but it's still pretty inexplicable to me. Marc Poirier