Emilie Autumn in Sheffield England, 2008.
Emilie Autumn
Born Emilie Autumn Liddell on September 22, 1979. She is an
American singer, songwriter, poet and violinist. She draws the influence
for her music from plays, novels and history, particularly the Victorian
era. She has labeled her style as "Victoriandustrial" and glam rock. Click
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Quotes by Emilie Autumn:
| "I became vegetarian a very long time ago, around age eleven, when I realized that there was very little difference between a chicken, a cow, a horse, or my dog. Making that odd distinction between who we eat and who we don't seemed very unnatural to me, so I just stopped eating animals entirely. Veganism came later, around ten years ago, and that was a choice I made as I began to become more educated on the facts about how poorly even dairy producing animals are often treated, how many chemicals they are injected with to increase their output, and how they often end up with the same fate of animals raised for slaughter. So, it was both a personal health choice as well as an ethical one." |
| "... the element that would help the most in keeping our planet green is to learn to appreciate the beauty and importance of what it is that we have, similar to my view of vegetarianism and converting people to that way of eating. It is much more effective, and far less annoying, to increase people's appreciation for animals of all species than it is to tell people not to eat them. A dietary alteration will soon follow once the animals in question are seen as something more important than food. We need to teach people to fall in love with the natural world again before we can expect them to care about saving it." |
| "I would dearly like to educate as much of the world as I can on the true character, and characteristics, of rats—they mean that much to me. They are my best friends and primary cause, and I see myself in them. I know that sounds odd, and I really don't care. In the last few years of touring the world with a heavily rat-themed musical production—as well as having just put out my book, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls, in which rats are some of the leading characters (they talk)—so many fans of my work have learned about these animals and have saved them from becoming snake food. [They have] given them homes, lives, love, and respect, and honestly, I am more proud of this than almost anything else I've done. " |
Quotes are from her 2010 interview with Planet Green and her 2010 interview with PETA2.
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