Vegan Reich were a
1980s American punk band formed by
Sean Muttaqi, embracing something similar to a
straight edge philosophy (they did not drink/do drugs), but taking it to a more extreme conclusion, ie, advocating the developement of a
vegan society, where people that violate the laws of that society could possibly face 'extermination'. Followers of the band where sometimes also involved in the
deep ecology movement called
Hardline, expressing a rhetoric that seemed to be a strange hybrid of both
anarchism and extreme
authoritarianism (if you violated someones rights, you could be subject to losing your own). None of their record releases ever dented the
Billboard Top 50, and for the time being
omnivores the world over continue to sleep safe in their beds at night.
See also; hardcore
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