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I swear I did my best to ensure that
His final moments were swift and free from fear
But consideration should be made for the fact
That Sandor Katz was my first kill
So I trust the reader will
Understand that while the screams may wear the seam
Like conscious objections they were in reality
Simply a request to honor his strength and speed
With gratitude and tenderness I seared
Every single hair from his body
Gently placed his decapitated head in a stock pot
Boiled off his flesh and made a spreadable head cheese
Because I believe that one can only relate with
Another living creature by completely destroying it
I'm sure Sandor's friends and family would appreciate this
A rationale so moronic it defies belief
Post-vegetarian I must submit to you respectfully
Be careful what kind of world you wish for
Someday it may come knocking on your door
Let me in. Let me the fuck in!
I just wanna
Fully relate
I swear I'll do my best to ensure that
Your final moments are swift and free from fear
His final moments were swift and free from fear
But consideration should be made for the fact
That Sandor Katz was my first kill
So I trust the reader will
Understand that while the screams may wear the seam
Like conscious objections they were in reality
Simply a request to honor his strength and speed
With gratitude and tenderness I seared
Every single hair from his body
Gently placed his decapitated head in a stock pot
Boiled off his flesh and made a spreadable head cheese
Because I believe that one can only relate with
Another living creature by completely destroying it
I'm sure Sandor's friends and family would appreciate this
A rationale so moronic it defies belief
Post-vegetarian I must submit to you respectfully
Be careful what kind of world you wish for
Someday it may come knocking on your door
Let me in. Let me the fuck in!
I just wanna
Fully relate
I swear I'll do my best to ensure that
Your final moments are swift and free from fear
Lyrics submitted by Overexposed
Track duration: 02:48
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I swear I did my best to ensure that
His final moments were swift and free from fear"
That first verse specifically says 'Sandor Katz' therefore it is not an animal, but Sandor Katz!!
A lot of you are taking this song the wrong way. As Jord said, it is a satirical look at eating meat in a 'humane' way. As many hold the killing of animals up there with homophobia, racism and sexism etcetera which I won't go into, it is essentially saying well what is the difference between me 'humanely' killing and animal and you, Sandor Katz.
Back to the song, I love it and what I love just is much is how stupid Sandor Katz sounds in his reply about the song. The guy obviously can't see what theyre trying to achieve in the song (obviously that any kind of slaughter cannot be humane. When referencing to the family I think theyre also implying that animals have families too and just because animals may sometimes get slaughtered quickly doesnt mean the families of the animals don't grieve!)
“That’s someone cutting bread and some fake screaming over it, for a laugh,” says Kowalski [in regards to "Humane (e) Meat."]. “[Sandor Katz] wrote a book and [Propagandhi co-founder Chris Hannah] read it. It makes light of the idea of humanely killing animals, and so we kind of just removed the animal, put him in place for satirical reasons, just to show that clearly this isn’t humane.”
Like conscious objections they were in reality
Simply a request to honor his strength and speed
instead of:
The conscious objections they were a reality
Simply a regress to honour his strength and speed
First lines are a butcher killing an animal.
I swear I did my best to ensure that
His final moments were swift and free from fear
Last Lines are propagandhi (figuratively) killing Sandor Katz.
I swear I'll do my best to ensure that
Your final moments are swift and free from fear
AND THEN
They kill him with a guitar solo !! Ahh a good way to die...
This is a great song, and the point is obviously that its not ok to be "post-vegetarian" and go back to eating meat after being a vegetarian, as Katz says in a book. Katz wishes people would just go back to eating meat, so Prop says be careful what you wish for...
It may come knocking on your door.
And then the song has some door knocks where they enter his house and kill him (with the gnarly shred) Great album.
"I’ve had some inquiries lately regarding a song being released by a Canadian punk band, Propaghandi, called “Human(e) Meat: The Flensing of Sandor Katz.” The song describes slaughtering and preparing me as food. It does so using images I take to be references to and interpretations of the chapter “Vegetarian Ethics and Humane Meat” in my book The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved. I find it ironic that group named for Ghandi, someone so insistent upon practicing resistance in nonviolent ways, would express their ideological disagreements with me through violent imagery describing my death, as well as a threat on my life. That is not funny to me.
I am always open to dialogue. I am not without ethical questions about meat. I identify with many of the ideals that motivate people to vegetarianism. But I also love meat and other animal-source foods, and I feel deeply nourished by them. After a relatively brief period of vegetarianism in my own life, I followed my body’s cravings back to meat. And I am not alone; I also observe as a cultural phenomenon that many one-time vegetarians return to meat, frequently spurred by pregnancy or health crisis, following their bodies’ calls.
We do have choices other than renouncing meat altogether or resigning ourselves to mass-produced meat, raised in cruel confinement and made toxic by a diet of industrial by-products and synthetic chemicals. Animals, even those destined for slaughter, can be fed well, given space to graze and roam, and treated with consideration. Meat does require death, but not cruelty. We can and must reclaim meat, as we must reclaim our food in every aspect and re-integrate its production into the fabric of our lives. This means cultivating relationships with plants, animals, microbes, and fungi, the other creatures that sustain us. And an important aspect of those relationships, if we are to feed ourselves, involves ending their lives. I do not take animal slaughter lightly. But I do believe that if the slaughter of animals were visible in peoples’ lives, we’d eat considerably less meat, and have a culture less prone to glorifying violence (as in this song)."
So you can probably see why Prop would choose him as their preferred human(e) dish : )
The first half of the song is in quotation, i.e.: from someone's perspective (someone with similar beliefs to Sandor Katz), or just Chris' sarcasm. Then (mostly) the second half (from "a rationale so moronic it defies belief" is basically his opinion.
Sorry for pointing out the obvious, effing radd song though.
Second, what is worse: "glorifying violence (as in this song)" by singing about killing and eating, or actually killing and eating?
Can anyone shed light on the Sandor Katz (aka Sandorkraut) reference? a brief search of wikipedia reveals he is a food writer and 'fermentation fetishist', but why him in particular and not any of the other authors?
Can anyone shed light on the Sandor Katz (aka Sandorkraut) reference? a brief search of wikipedia reveals he is a food writer and 'fermentation fetishist', but why him in particular and not any of the other authors?