Singer Kate Bush has been well-known as a vegetarian and animal activist since the early 1980s when British cooking show host Delia Smith interviewed her for the BBC. In the clip, Kate shares some of her favourite vegetarian dishes.

The writer John Russell who wrote about Kate Bush has a webpage in which he highlights things she said about vegetarianism. Among the most striking is the disconnect that we have been what we buy in the supermarket and its origins. Kate told John,
People probably eat so much pre-packaged food because it’s always so easy to get in shops, and they don’t connect it with live animals. If they actually had to kill the animal themselves, they would probably have great difficulty in doing it. People who live and work with animals can be aware of what they are doing when they kill an animal. They realise that they’re going to be eating it, rather than it being sent off to be sold in supermarkets. On some levels this seems to be all right, because it’s on a one-to-one basis: you feed and look after the animal for a certain length of time and then it repays you by becoming your food. But it’s the mass-production of living creatures just to be eaten, and the fact that people aren’t really aware of what they’re eating, that I don’t like.
Still holds true today, decades later. What would happen if everyone had to kill the animal, gut it, and cut it before preparing it as food? Would most people in the West have the stomach or conscience to do so?
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