Posted on 11/16/2022 1:07:02 PM PST by jerod
The Canadian icon explains why his environmental views may spell the end of touring for him
Neil Young has not performed live since September 2019, and it now seems that might have been his fans' last chance to catch the Canadian icon in concert...
...And while the pandemic is still causing concern and complications among touring musicians, Young has added a more definitive reason why he may never hit the road again.
In a new interview with Q's Tom Power, promoting another new Crazy Horse album, World Record, Young explains that his environmental views, especially when it comes to eating sustainably, are something he refuses to compromise on, and which can be difficult to uphold when touring from city to city.
"When I look at the compromise that I would have to make to do that, the things that I don't believe in, that I'd have to endorse, it doesn't turn me on," Young tells Power. "I can deal with the power for the venue, I can make it clean. I can make the P.A. clean, the lights clean, the electricity in the building clean. I can clean up all my vehicles. I've got the right fuel. I can do all of that. But the food — all those places are fed by factory farms."
Young is referring to the industrial method of raising farmed animals, which has been criticized by environmental advocates as an intensive form of agriculture that prioritizes maximizing profits over the treatment of its livestock in addition to generating as much greenhouse gas emissions as "all cars, trucks and automobiles combined," as Greenpeace states...
(Excerpt) Read more at cbc.ca ...
Stay home and eat bugs then Niel.
“Old man, look at my life.
I’m a lot like you were.
(Rich, Pretentious and Bossy!)
Neil...Old man look at your life...
No one cares.
Like I could stand to listen to some whiney foreign libtard preach at me
Stay in your own country
I should have punched him when I had the chance back in the 70’s.
“ But the food — all those places are fed by factory farms.””
Most libs with money can afford to be elitist.
They have no clue that “factory farms”, are what makes food accessible to the low income rif raff they pretend to care about.
Just double up on your vaxs and you should be fine kneel.
Just think if he shows up near a venue near you, you have been chosen! You can be special according to NEil Young. 🤮
Don’t let it bring. you down, Neil.
Besides, a man needs a maid.
He’s Canadian ?!?
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What happened to ‘Merican
Rock n Roll ?
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Like
‘Won’t Get Fooled Again!’
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Is it just me, or has Neil looked like your typical unwashed hippie for decades?
I didn’t know he was from Canada until he recently became a citizen.
If he’d been from any other country it would have been the first thing people said about him.
What a parasite.
NO Southern man does... (and Watergate doesn't bother me. Does your conscience bother you? Tell me true.)
That was the Stills-Young Band album. Album cover has a pic of buffalo but the song was about one of his cars from his early days. I have the album and still give it a listen once in a while.
“Hey, hey. My, my.”
“Neil Young F off and die.”
Somehow, terrific and Young just don’t go together in my world. I’ve never understood why people liked his high pitched out of tune voice. Sorry to offend but...
He is an awful human being and should be made to pay for his actions during covid.
Nobody cares!!!
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