Morrissey Walked Out on Date Because He Ate Meat

Some
people like dinner and a movie on their first date—but Morrissey will stop at
dinner if you order any dead animals.

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According
to his new memoir, Autobiography, the
longtime PETA supporter walked out on a first date after realizing that his
date was a meat-eater. Here’s the soulful singer’s take on the incident:

As
his food order arrives I stare intently at what appears to be a sloppy dish of
dog food on his plate. … I therefore automatically stand up and walk out of the
restaurant. Suddenly you come to a certain situation and you are unable to live
with it, and the only protest you can make on behalf of the butchered animal is
to depart the scene.

Soon after, Morrissey’s date, Jake Owen Walters, showed up at his
house:

He
obviously understood my sudden exit, and he had been curious enough to follow
me home. He steps inside and he stays for two years.

Morrissey’s subsequent “whirlwind” courtship with
Walters was his first serious romantic relationship, and it inspired him to
write the blissful “Now My Heart Is Full” from 1994′s Vauxhall and I.

Autobiography has
not yet been released in the United States, but we can’t wait to read more
passages like this one, where Moz—who first became involved with PETA during his
1985 “Meat Is Murder” tour—explains why he
went vegetarian:

Nobody
can possibly be so hungry that they need to take a life in order to feel
satisfied—they don’t after all … so why take the life of an animal? Both are
conscious beings with the same determination to survive. It is habit, and
laziness and nothing else.

Amen.

Want to go vegetarian like Morrissey? Here’s
how.

Written by Evan Lambert