List of songs about animal rights

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Animal rights has been a subject of both popular and independent music since the 1970s.^[1] Associated with the environmentalist musical counterculture of the previous decade, animal rights songs of the 1970s were influenced by the passage of animal protection laws and the 1975 book Animal Liberation.^[1] Paul McCartney has cited John Lennon's Bungalow Bill, released in 1968, as among the first animal rights songs.^[2]

Popular themes include anti-whaling (prompted by the Save the Whales movement),^[1][3][4] opposition to hunting, animal testing and vegetarianism.^[5] Bullfighting has been a prominent theme in Spain and some Latin American countries; while folk and pop music have traditionally identified with bullfighting traditions, several ska, rock and punk groups have emerged which oppose them.^[6]

Anarcho-punk and veganism have a long association dating back to the 1980s.^[5] During this period, American hardcore punk and straight edge scenes became increasingly concerned with animal rights, spawning the vegan straight edge and hardline punk ideologies.^[7][8] An increase in Animal Liberation Front activism in the 1990s corresponded with the rise of vegan straight edge and hardline bands.^[9][10] The more peaceful Krishnacore subgenre, which also advocates vegetarianism and animal rights, developed around this time too.^[11] The association between punk subculture and animal rights has continued in the 21st century, with vegan punk festivals including Fluff Fest in the Czech Republic and Verdurada in Brazil.^[8][12]

List of songs about animal rights

Song	Artist	Album	Themes	Year	Language	Ref.
"Instinctive Fact"	Celestial Dreams	Single	Cruelty to animals, anti-hunting, anti-animal blood sports, anti-animal testing	2023	English
"All the Good Girls Go to Hell"	Billie Eilish	When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?	Climate change	2019	English	[13]
"40-year old Vegan"	Chokeules	Stay Up	Veganism	2014	English	[14]
"A Life Embossed"	Protest the Hero	Volition	Opposition to legislations against specific dog breeds	2013	English	[15]
"Acà toro"	Punkreas	Paranoia e potere	Anti-bullfighting	1995	Italian	[16]
"Animal Grace"	Laura Nyro	Angel in the Dark	Animal rights	2001	English	[17]
"Animal Kingdom"	Prince	The Truth	Veganism	1998	English	[18][19]
"Animal Liberation"	Los Fastidios	Guardo avanti	Anti-animal testing, direct action	2001	Italian and English	[20][21]
"As Long As It Tastes Good"	Acerbic Wit	Single	Turning a blind eye to animal cruelty	2022	English
"Beat the Meat"	Good Clean Fun	On the Streets Saving the Scene From the Forces of Evil	Vegetarianism	2000	English	[22]
"Behind the Mask"	Goldfinger	Disconnection Notice	Animal rights activism, veganism	2005	English	[23]
"Blood Sports"	The Style Council	"Walls Come Tumbling Down!"	Anti-hunting, anti-animal blood sports	1985	English	[24]
"Cats and Dogs"	Gorilla Biscuits	Start Today	Speciesism	1989	English
"Civilized Man"	Shelter	Mantra	Vegetarianism	1995	English	[25]
"Clams Have Feelings Too (Actually They Don't)"	NOFX	Pump Up the Valuum	Vegetarianism, ethics of eating seafood	2000	English	[22][26]
"Consume & Kill"	Manliftingbanner	Ten Inches That Shook the World	Vegetarianism	1992	English and French	[27]
"Cow"	Linda McCartney and Carla Lane	Wide Prairie	Vegetarianism	1998	English	[28]
"Cruel Circus"	The Colourfield	Virgins and Philistines	Opposition to animal acts in circuses, anti-trophy hunting, anti-animal testing	1985	English	[29][30]
"Cruelty to Animals"	Frenzal Rhomb	Forever Malcolm Young	Cruelty to animals	2006	English
"Death Camps"	Cro-Mags	Best Wishes	Vegetarianism	1989	English	[25]
"Don't Kill The Animals"	Nina Hagen and Lene Lovich			1986	English
"Don't Kill the Whale"	Yes	Tormato	Anti-whaling	1978	English	[3][31]
"Excuse Me"	The Decline	Are You Gonna Eat That?	Anti-animal testing	2011	English
"Heart Break Like Mine"	Sylvie's Songs Featuring Bryon Harris		Animal rights, end factory farming	2024	English
"Human(e) Meat (The Flensing of Sandor Katz)"	Propagandhi	Supporting Caste	Hypocrisy of ethical meat eating	2009	English	[32]
"Hunters Will be Hunted"	Heaven Shall Burn	Veto (album)	Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, anti-whaling	2013	English	[33]
"I Don't Eat Animals"	Melanie Safka	Leftover Wine	Vegetarianism	1970	English	[34]
"Kitten's World"	Brandy Sinco	Healing, Hope, and Transformation	MEOW Formula	2003	English	[35]
"Liberación Animal"	Chucho Merchán	El poder sagrado de la vida	Animal Rights, Animal Liberation	2017	Spanish	[35]
"Looking for Changes"	Paul McCartney	Off the Ground	Anti-animal testing	1993	English	[36]
"Long Leather Coat"	Paul McCartney	"Hope of Deliverance"	Anti-fur/leather	1992	English	[36]
"Lower Order (A Good Laugh)"	Propagandhi	Victory Lap	Speciesism, Ethics of animal consumption	2017	English
"Meat Is Murder"	The Smiths	Meat Is Murder	Against all types of meat eating.	1985	English
"Men In Helicopters"	Adrian Belew	Young Lions	Anti-hunting, Anti-fishing, Anti-speciesism	1990	English
"Nailing Descartes to the wall"	Propagandhi	Less Talk More Rock	For the end of the killing of animals for food.	1996	English
"Panda"	Jefferson Airplane	Jefferson Airplane	Panda anti-hunting.	1989	English
"Pink Convertible"	MARINA	Ancient Dreams in a Modern Land	Climate change	2021	English
"Potemkin City Limits"	Propagandhi	Supporting Caste	Anti-animal husbandry, animal consciousness	2009	English	[37]
"Puppies and Friends"	Atrophy	Violent by Nature	Animal rights	1990	English	[38][39]
"Ravenous Medicine"	Voivod	Killing Technology	Animal cruelty, Animal testing	1986	English
"San Fermín"	Attaque 77	Amén!	Anti-bullfighting	1995	Spanish	[16]
"Save the Whales!"	Country Joe McDonald	Paradise With an Ocean View	Anti-modern whaling	1975	English	[40]
"Show Us You Care"	Icons of Filth	Onward Christian Soldiers	Anti-animal testing	1984	English	[41]
"Shut Up Already"	NOFX	Liberal Animation	Anti-animal rights activism	1988	English	[42]
"Skin"	Siouxsie and the Banshees	Kaleidoscope	Anti-fur/leather	1980	English	[43]
"Small Black Flowers That Grow in the Sky"	Manic Street Preachers	Everything Must Go	Anti-zoos	1996	English
"Song of the World's Last Whale"	Pete Seeger	At 89	Anti-whaling	1970[nb 1]	English	[45]
"The Bullfighter Dies"	Morrissey	World Peace Is None of Your Business	Anti-bullfighting	2014	English	[46]
"TheHealingFields"	Bones	Powder	Veganism, anti-meat industry	2015	English
"The Last Leviathan"	Sheena Wellington	Kerelaw	Anti-whaling	1986	English	[47]
"The Slayer"	Refused	Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent	Slaughter, Selfishness, cruelty to animals	1996	English
"To the Last Whale..."	Crosby & Nash	Wind on the Water	Anti-whaling	1975	English	[1]
"Vergüenza"	Ska-P	Planeta Eskoria	Anti-bullfighting	2000	Spanish	[16]
"Voice of the Voiceless"	Heaven Shall Burn	Antigone	Animal rights	2004	English
"Waste"	Good Riddance	Ballads from the Revolution	Ethics of eating meat	1998	English	[48]
"Wild Life"	Paul McCartney and Wings	Wild Life	Opposition to anthropization that affects wildlife	1971	English	[36]
"Without A Choice"	Useless ID	State Is Burning	Animal rights	2016	English

See also

• List of political punk songs § On environmentalism and animal rights
• List of vegan media
• List of animal rights advocates

Notes

1. Pete Seeger composed "Song of the World's Last Whale" in 1970 and played it live, but did not officially record it until the album At 89 of 2008.^[44]