Prince
Prince
American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and actor
renowned as an innovator, won seven Grammy Awards, a Golden Globe and an Academy
Award...and he was a long-time animal activist
(1958-2016)
Compassion is an action word with no boundaries.
From his song "Animal Kingdom"...
No member of the animal kingdom nurses past maturity
No member of the animal kingdom ever did a thing to me
It’s why I don’t eat red meat or white fish
Don’t give me no blue cheese
We’re all members of the animal kingdom
Leave your brothers and sisters in the sea
He wore a nonwool jacket on one of the album covers for his 1999 release
Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic and contacted PETA for information to include in
the liner notes. He wrote:
If this jacket were real wool, it would have taken 7 lambs whose lives would
have begun like this … Within weeks of their birth, their ears would have
been hole-punched, their tails chopped off and the males would have been
castrated while fully conscious. Xtremely high rates of mortality r
considered normal: 20 2 40% of lambs die b4 the age of 8 weeks: 8 million
mature sheep die every year from disease, xposure or neglect. Many people
believe shearing helps animals who would otherwise b 2 hot. But in order 2
avoid losing any wool, ranchers shear sheep b4 they would naturally shed
their winter coats, resulting in millions of sheep deaths from xposure 2 the
cold.
Years later, when a fan tried to give Prince a leather coat during a concert in Washington, D.C., he demurred, saying, “Please do not kill a cow so I can wear a coat!” He also once famously declared, “We need an Animal Rights Day when all slaughterhouses shut down.”
