	This is Fat Nipples #1.  My name is Chris and I'll be your editor

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and ravings.  If what I've written affects you in any way, please write in 

and tell me about it.  Tell me I'm a genius, an asshole, a sex god,

whatever!  I want your input! 	

	The only reviews this time are in my playlist, which is just stuff 

that I listen to.  If anybody would like to send in a record, zine, book or 

anything pretty, I'll describe\review it(meaning that there probably won't 

be many negative comments, unless you are a brainless, talentless loser) in a later issue and give you some free publicity.  I will also run any ads that you send in as long as they are not blatantly racist, sexist, fascist or any other nasty -ist.

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	Why is it that everyone I know thinks that punk ended with the Sex 

Pistols?  Everybody around here insists that their music is "hardcore" not 

"punk".  All my friends seem to think that if you call yourself punk, you'll 

sprout a pink mohawk and get yellow teeth.

	What bullshit.

	Everyone in the super-hip City Gardens scene seems to have forgotten

that hardcore is an abbreviation for hardcore punk(not to mention rock and 

roll).

	It's the same way with straight edge.  If you consider yourself 

straight, then soon you'll shave your head, put Xs on your hands and sing 

Crucial Youth songs.

	The problem around here is that everyone's worried what other people 

think.  Everyone acts like they don't care, but we still try to impress the 

crowd.  We reject the mainstream crowd at school and at home to join the 

"alternative" one at City Gardens.   But it's still a crowd.  A crowd is a 

crowd and if you try impress someone, no matter how cool that person is, 

your still a trendy asshole.

	Do you like hardcore because of its independence and rebellion?  Do 

you like hardcore because of its free exchange of alternative viewpoints and 

radical politics?  Or do you like it because there's a Biohazard video on 

MTV?  If you answered yes to one of the first two questions, then more power 

to you.  Reject all the fucking trendy-ass stuck-upness and punk out!  Be 

yourself!  If you answered yes to the last question, go buy a fifty-dollar 

Gap flannel shirt and mosh it up!  Understand?!?

	Speaking of Biohazard(Remember?  Back in the last paragraph.), I 

just saw them play at City Gardens this week with Sick of it All and Sheer 

Terror.  I don't know about them.  Their music is outstanding and they said 

some cool stuff--they allowed people to stage dive even though they were 

recording a live album--but most of it smacks of bullshit.  For instance, 

their guitarist--the one who couldn't help saying fuck, or some variant 

thereof, every third word--said that if it was up to the band, no one would 

have paid to get in.  Sure.  That's why it cost ten dollars to get in.     

Don't take me as a Fugazi worshiper, but they manage to play City Gardens 

for five bucks, while Biohazard, who get played on  MTV and managed to pack 

the place, needed ten.  There are dozens of bands that manage to charge ten 

dollars for CD's, but Biohazard cares so much that they'll take fifteen.  As 

Biohazard themselves say (talking to Ricki Racktman on MTV, selling their 

record)," Music's for you and me, not the fucking industry."

	Another thing that bothered me was their attitude towards moshing.  

They repeatedly chastised people like me, who were standing in the back.  If 

some people want to distance themselves from the idiocy of pit politics and 

the band's super-macho, good old boy, spitting and cussing image that's our business.

	Sick of it All was great though.  Live, I could forget their 

Relativity\In-Effect corporate cock-rockness and that their new album is a 

non-vinyl release and really concentrate on the great music.  None of those 

guys cursed too much either.  Lou even talked about his mom!

	The best part of the show, however, was that I got to dance without 

taking part in the stupid tribal, ritualistic, macho, regressive, new-wave 

masculine bullshit-fest that takes over the dance floor at all the shows 

these days.  You know what I'm talking about!  All of those crazy kids, 

releasing energy and aggression!   Good old fashioned American grandma and 

apple pie fun!  I would've joined the football team if I liked that kind of 

fun.





	See "Slacker".  It's good.















                               My Playlist!

	Stuff that I listen to, that you should listen to too:



Iconoclast 7" - Raw, screamy, fucked up, intelligent hardcore.  Powerful and 

danceable at times. ($2.5, Ebullition, P.O. Box 680, Goleta, CA 93116)



Subzero 7" -  Metal-tinged hardcore with good lyrics and a pretty cover. 

($3.5, Inner Journey, Inc.(?!?),  P.O. Box 10384, Wilmington,  DE 19850)



Nation of Ulysses - "Plays Pretty for Baby" LP - Crazy, punked up, 

jazz tinged, anti-nostalgic revolution music.  Truly original. ($8, 

Dischord Records, 3819 Beecher St., N.W. Washington, D.C. 20007)



Downcast LP - Fucking great, intelligent rage.  Every week, I find a new 

favorite song off of this.  It comes with a huge booklet with essays and 

information on all sorts of topics.   These guys take themselves way too 

seriously, but as long as their music stays this good, I don't care. ($5, 

Ebullition Records, above)



Helmet - "Strap It On" LP - Much better than their new one, "Meantime".  

Rawer, harder, fresher.  Get the AmRep version, not the Interscope reissue!

(Amphetamine Reptile Records, 2541 Nicollet Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN 55404)



Iconoclast\Merel split 7" - The Iconoclast side isn't as good as the 7", 

but Merel just blows me away.  Their song is kind of odd, really original.  

It's a narrated story accompanied by Merel's screamy thrashings.  Totally 

awesome. ($3, Iconoclast\Old Glory Records, 5 White Oak Dr., Colts Neck, 

NJ 07722)



Sawhorse 7" - Kind of rocking, mid-paced hardcore.  Different.   Oddly 

catchy. ($2.5, Ebullition Records, above)



V\A - International Underground Pop Festival LP - A really strong comp, with 

a lot of poppy, punky and fucked up music.  It's all live, recorded at the 

convention in Olympia, Washington.   Just a heartbeat away from Seattle!  

Tell all your trendy friends!  Includes tracks from Fugazi, L7, Melvins, 

Nation of Ulysses, Bratmobile, Courtney Love and many others. (K Records, 

P.O. Box 7154, Olypmia, WA 98507)



Rage Against the Machine LP - Lovely.  Unique funk\rap\hardcore crossover.  

Nifty.  Also noteworthy: Vocalist Zack de la Rocha's old band Inside Out

[Revelation]. (Sony)



Lament - Drowning Room 7" - This is really old and probably really hard to 

find, but it's also really good.  New York hardcore with passionate singing. 

(Inner Journey, above)



Digable Planets - Reachin'(A New Refutation of Time and Space) LP - Funky, 

jazzy, pretty, cool.  I like it. (Go to Sam Goody schmuck.)



Born Against - Nine Patriotic Hymns for Children LP - My favorite band.  

'Nuff said. ($6, Vermiform, P.O. Box 1145, Cooper Station, NY, NY 10276)



Iceburn - Firon LP - This is not the same Iceburn that we heard on the 7".  

The only remaining member is the guitarist, who has taken on the vocal 

duties.  At first, I was put off by the difference, but this band is just 

as good, if not better, than the other one.  Progressive hardcore\

neoclassical\metal\funk\art-rock.   Very refined, slick and well produced.  

They'll be on a major within two years. (Victory Records)



The Hear It If You Can Dept. - Confusion, Patterns, Social Disorder, Maximum 

Penalty, Darkside







	The following is what turned out to be a massive political diatribe.  

I'm sorry if you bought this expecting to read about music and I bore the 

fuck out of you, but so much fucked up shit is going on in the world right 

now that needs addressing.  Just as I am finishing four pages on the 

nonevent in L.A., which I had intended to be my only "current events" piece, 

Dave Koresh lights himself on fire.  Then there is the ongoing fucked-upness 

of the World Trade Center bombing and it's related investigations.  Please 

read on.  Maybe you'll learn something.









                                    Rodney King 



                                  The L.A. Verdict



	It's Monday and soon the verdict comes in.  Right now, this looks 

like a lose-lose situation.  If the cops are acquitted, the LAPD can go on 

and beat the fuck out of all the niggers they want and they'll get plenty 

of chances, because there will probably be quite a bit of rioting going on, 

which will only serve to reinforce the nations stereotype of inner city kids 

as gang-banging crackheads.   If they are guilty, our justice system has 

failed.  We will have to live in a system in which public opinion can 

convict you.  No matter how protected those jurors are, their verdict will 

be influenced by the foreseen consequences.  The possibility of a national 

uprising must somehow influence the verdict.

	I, like most others, was shocked when the pigs were acquitted last 

year.  I, unlike most others, was also perfectly willing to accept that our 

justice system had failed and move on.  I find it hard to believe that the 

charges they are now being tried on had been considered before the riots.  

This trial skirts dangerously with double jeopardy.  As well as being a 

judicial faux pas, it is ridiculously ineffectual.  It is a figurehead.  

An opiate for the masses.   No matter what happens to these pigs, police 

brutality will persist.   If there are riots, or if there are none, inner 

city life will still be hopeless and decadent.  We need to concentrate on 

the real problems that underlie this case.  Let's concentrate on welfare, 

reforming the police, passing stricter brutality standards, ending racism 

and other things that will actually benefit our society much more than a 

few pigs behind bars.



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	The way the press acted after the L.A. riots, you would think that 

inner cities had just popped up all over the country in a week's time, 

rather than having developed slowly for the last hundred years.  This is a 

rampant tendency in journalism.  They like to pretend that nothing exists 

in America until they say so and they never say so until something 

photogenic and "news-worthy" happens.  Thus, the L.A. riots were the 

beginning of lower-class, minority rage and the Rodney King beating was 

the beginning of police brutality.

	The sad part is that the American people are shallow enough that 

they believe this bullshit.  I was aware of racism and brutality before 

Rodney King.  I was aware of poverty before the riots.  I was aware of 

sexism before Anita Hill.  I was aware of AIDS before Magic Johnson.  And 

so was the average American.   The problem is that it didn't matter.  The 

problem is that these very real problems could not assume "reality" until 

they were on television.

	Or maybe it's that our "enlightened times" aren't nearly as 

enlightened as we would like to think.  Of course AIDS didn't matter before.  

Then it was just killing faceless, nameless people.   And the celebrities?  

They were all gay.  Rock Hudson, Freddie Mercury--who cared about them?  But 

now it has affected one of our precious sports stars!  A red-blooded, 

American, heterosexual one too!  Good God.  Go fetch the research grants!  

Start up new charities!  We have an epidemic on our hands!

	American culture makes me sick.



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	It's Thursday now and I'm starting to get scared.  People were 

predicting a verdict as early as Tuesday, but it never came.  I can just 

imagine what's going on in that jury room.

	My mother had jury duty in federal district court about a month ago.  

The trial was for a man who might or might not have had a tiny part in a 

drug smuggling ring.  My mom firmly believed that there was not enough 

evidence to convict him.  She also had a gut instinct that he was guilty.  

The rest of the jury, except for one, thought he was guilty, period.  Well, 

the vote had to be unanimous and everybody wanted to go home, so the jury 

coerced my mother into voting not guilty, even though she felt that he 

should be acquitted.  The point of all this is that I'd imagine that this 

same thing is happening in the jury room right now.  The jurors have been 

holed up for a month and have already missed Easter.  One side has gained 

an advantage and is abusing and manipulating the other side until it finally 

gives up.  The final verdict will be a compromise and will not represent 

justice in the least.  The wonders of our court system!

	Like I said before, this trial is a lose-lose situation.  If public 

protest of an acquittal turns violent, police brutality will worsen and a 

guilty verdict means that if we can't convict them the first time, we can 

just keep trying until we reach a more acceptable conclusion.   It sounds 

pretty fascistic either way.



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	It's Saturday night and the verdict is in.  I haven't seen the news 

yet, but my father told me that two of the officers were convicted and the 

other two were acquitted.  What a tidy compromise.   The system appeased the 

masses without lynching itself.  It showed that white, racist pigs are not 

untouchable, but it still went easy on them.  I don't think that this will 

inspire much public outcry, unless their sentence is overly lenient or 

Reginald Denny's attackers are crucified.  Right now, everyone should be 

happy.

	In fact, I can't help wondering if this instant will end up as a 

tiny footnote in history.  I think it almost certainly will.  By the time 

you read this, you might not even remember what I'm talking about.  For a 

month, America held its breath.  Police precincts beefed up their on-duty 

officers.  We braced ourselves for a holocaust.  What we got was a gentle 

breeze.  Twenty years from now, all that has occurred surrounding the Rodney 

King beating will be a paragraph in a history text.





	Riots in L.A.   In 1991, Los Angeles police were video-taped beating

 a black motorist, whose name was Rodney King.  A year later, in the spring 

of 1992, these officers were found not guilty of use of excessive force.  In 

response to this, the lower class black people of Los Angeles rioted for 

three days, killing more than thirty people and causing millions of dollars 

of damage.  The next year, the officers were put on trial in a civil rights 

case and two of them were found  guilty.





	What the paragraph won't include, if it wants to be used in American 

school systems, is that at the moment in which the not guilty verdict was 

handed down last year, something clicked.  Something clicked in the 

collective consciousness of lower-class, black America and it realized that 

it's end of the stick was smaller.   It felt an overwhelming fear.  A fear 

that any white racist pig could do anything he or she  wanted and there was 

not one thing any individual could do about it.  And that fear spilled into 

the streets of L.A.  Suddenly George Bush and white, upper-class America 

were afraid too.  None of that will be noted, or even implied, in 

conventional history books.



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	Reading that last paragraph, you might think that I hate myself, or 

that I feel a good bit of white guilt, and I probably should, but I don't.  

I'm white, male and as middle-class as they come.  I've never known poverty, 

sexual discrimination, subtle or not so subtle racism. I have the 

unfortunate privilege of being unrestricted by society.  I have no glass 

ceilings.  I am favored by a racist, sexist society, but I refuse to use 

this privilege.  I refuse to allow myself the luxury of my arbitrary 

"advantage".  I certainly benefit from it in ways that I cannot control, 

but the fact is that I cannot help what I am, just like everyone else.  So 

I don't judge people on what they were born like and I  expect that they do 

the same for me.



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	I guess the only people that are really steaming about the L.A. 

verdict are the executives at CNN and the networks.





No riots + no flaming buildings + no massive protests = 

		nothing to keep us glued to the television for days on end













                                 Waco's Burning



	Two months ago, federal officers stormed the compound of David 

Koresh's Branch Davidian sect in Waco, Texas.  The media has reported that 

the sect had been stockpiling weapons, leading the government to put them 

under surveillance.  Apparently, the officers had decided that these people 

were a threat.  Well, when the officers stormed the compound the sect members

 fought back, killing several officers.  The officers retreated, leading to 

the standoff that lasted until today.  This morning, realizing that he would 

not escape alive Dave Koresh lit the compound on fire.  It is assumed that 

he and more than ninety of his followers burned with it.

	People are acting like this is a tragic victory.  That is what the 

government and the FBI want us to feel.  They want us to think Mr. Koresh 

and his followers got what they deserved.  Only the children are deserving 

of pity, they claim.

	Bullshit.

	First lets get the facts straight.  The officers claimed that they 

stormed the compound because the sect had been stockpiling weapons.  It was 

never made clear what sort of weapons.  Were these weapons illegally 

obtained?  This was never stated in the media.  It was only stated that 

they had guns.  Remember--this is in Texas, where there are two guns for 

every person and gun laws are practically nonexistent.

	The FBI claims that the Branch Davidian sect came under close 

scrutiny when a parcel addressed to the compound and containing grenades 

just happened to open in the Post Office.  The Postal employees then alerted 

the police.  Why can I picture the package "just opening" while there 

happened to be a federal officer with a razor blade standing above it?

	Okay, now the officers storm the compound.  Five of them are shot 

and killed.  This fact never failed to get mentioned in any story relating 

to the sect.  It was rarely, if ever mentioned how many of the sect members 

were killed.  Six of them died in the shoot-out.  One of those who died was 

Mr. Koresh's daughter.   Several of the sect members were wounded as well, 

including Dave Koresh.  I guess an officer's death matters more than that of 

a Branch Davidian wacko, which brings me to my next point...

	The media and the public have already judged and crucified Dave 

Koresh because he believes he is the son of God.  He may have never 

committed a single crime, but this simple fact has convicted him.  Don't 

faithful Christians realize that this same thing happened to Jesus of 

Nazareth two thousand years ago?  The Romans thought he was a loon so they 

crucified him.  Don't you ever wonder if mankind's savior is lying straight-

jacketed in a mental hospital somewhere, because everyone thinks he or she 

is a loon?  And maybe the son of God burned himself today, because of 

American small-mindedness and skepticism.

	The point is not that he might in fact be the product of a divine 

power, but that our Judeo-Christian culture is too narrow to accept someone 

else's viewpoints.  Thus any person who has a faith other than what is 

accepted as "American"(i.e., Islam, Branch Davidian, Scientology, 

agnosticism, etc.) must be crazy or brainwashed.

	The members of the Branch Davidian sect are not brainwashed.  Not 

anymore than a Catholic who goes to Church every week and follows the letter 

of the two thousand year old document called the Bible or the priest who 

pledges to a life of celibacy.  All religion requires brainwashing.  In 

order to establish faith, you must first accept certain beliefs that may 

not make logical, empirical sense.

	Religion is like geometry.  In order to create a religion or a 

geometry, you must begin with undefinable terms.  From this, you can draw 

conclusions that make sense.  Thus, all followers of all religions are brainw

ashed somewhat.  The members of the Branch Davidian sect have profound faith 

in Mr. Koresh and they cannot be faulted for that any more than any other 

religious person.

	The government, the FBI and the media want you to believe that Dave 

Koresh was a psycho.  They want you to believe that he forced his followers 

to remain in the compound with him.  They even want you to believe that it 

was members of the sect who lit the fire.  For all we know, Mr. Koresh may 

have been(or may be) a perfectly rational man, who had the wrong ideas.  He 

may have inspired ninety people so much that they were willing to die for 

him.  His and their death may also not have been of their own choice.   	This morning, officers announced to Mr. Koresh that all negotiations were off and that the sect members were to come out with their hands up.  Just after noon, someone set a fire.  It might have been Branch Davidians who believed that dying would be more prudent than giving up, or it might have been a federal officer who couldn't stand to see a man with a different belief system live.  All we have is the government's word and we know what that's good for don't we?



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	I was much too hasty in stating that David Koresh lit himself on 

fire.  All the survivors of the holocaust(how appropriate, given that this 

is the week of the anniversary of the holocaust and the Holocaust Museum is 

being dedicated) claim that the fire was set by the FBI tanks when they were 

punching holes in the walls of the compound.

	The FBI claims that one of its agents heard a cult member scream,

"The fire's been set!".  This is used as proof of FBI innocence.  I can't 

help wondering how similar that would sound to "A fire's been set!", 

especially when you're hearing it through a wall in an emergency situation.

	At least the media has been getting on the governments back about 

how the siege was handled.  Unfortunately, the media has also decided that 

the only ones deserving of pity are the children.  They would never 

consider that Mr. Koresh was being persecuted for his religious beliefs.

	What did Mr. Koresh ever do to make anyone think he was a psychopath.

  He was a religious fanatic to be sure, but he was also a religious fanatic 

who was being held hostage by a fascist government.   One editorial writer 

went so far as to call him a murdering psychopath.  Some people can be so 

ignorant.



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(The following is reprinted from the Red Table Prints info-ad in Maximum 

Rock-N-Roll #120.  Please write to them.  You can get a catalog of their 

custom silk-screened political T-shirts and stickers if you send a stamp 

or a stamped envelope to: Red Table Prints, 330 W. Uintah #A224, Colorado 

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                             Stop racist frame-up

	The U.S. government's witch hunt against Mohammed Salameh, a 25-

year-old Palestinian born in Israeli-occupied territories on the West Bank 

is reminiscent of the days of the rabid anti-Communist McCarthyite hearings 

of the 1950s.

	Salameh was arrested March 4 in connection with the Feb. 26 

explosion at the World Trade center.

	The FBI is trying its casein the media through innuendo and racism.

	"They're trying to put it on the Muslims.  We are a scapegoat," said 

a member of the Abu Bakr mosque in Brooklyn, NY, the day after Salameh was 

arrested.  "Yesterday, you heard them[FBI officials] say it will take a 

month before they find out what really happened.  Today, out of nowhere 

they arrest somebody.   Come on."

	Isn't it a reasonable possibility that the dangerous health and 

safety violations inside the World Trade Center--which will cost $80 million 

to repair--could be responsible for the explosion?

	The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, an autonomous agency 

that owns the World Trade Center is exempt from New York City fire codes.  

The Trade Center buildings lack the basic safety features of battery powered 

exit lights, required in other smaller buildings.

	In 1983, two people were killed when the ceiling collapsed in Jersey 

City's Port Authority-run train station because the screws wee inadequate.

	Since the explosion has been characcterized as a terrorist 

bombing, insurance companies can look to the federal government to absorb 

most of the estimated $1.1 billion in damages to the owners of the World 

Trade Center.  That transfers into having the taxpayers absorb the cost.

	The U.S. government has an ignominious history of engineering 

political frame-ups that coincide with international policy.

	The Palestinian community in this country has been the focus of 

much government harassment.  In January 1987, seven Palestinian men and 

one Kenyan woman--the L.A. 8--were arrested in southern California.  They 

were held in maximum security without bail for three weeks on charges that 

they were national security risks--charged with supporting Palestinian 

freedom.

	Remember the media furor over "Libyan hit squads"?  In late 1981, 

the U.S. government swore that a team of Libyan assassins, assisted by 

"East German terror experts" reputedly organized by the Soviet Union, had 

infiltrated this country armed with surface-to-air missiles.  When the 

fantasy never materialized, did the media admit it?   No.

	We view the arrests and round-up of people in the Arab and Muslim 

community with the greatest skepticism.  Those who have been arrested are 

being convicted in the news media, which precludes the possibility of a fair 

trial.



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ON A FINAL POLITICAL NOTE: If you think that the preceding articles were 

excessively paranoid towards the media, government and corporate America, 

I invite you to read some of the works of Noam Chomsky.  He is a well 

renowned genius, who has made ground-breaking discoveries in many fields, 

most notably in linguistics.  He is also a long-standing radical and 

dissident.

	The two books of his that I have read are Terrorizing the 

Neighborhood, which is about the U.S. government's control of "democracy" 

in Central America and Necessary Illusions, about the media's role in 

preventing democracy.

	His books are available from South End and Pressure Drop presses 

and can be bought, along with lots of cool records, zines and T-shirts 

from Blacklist Mailorder, a non-profit collective from San Francisco.  

Support non-profit record stores and support the grass-roots hardcore 

community.

	Blacklist Mailorder, 475 Valencia St., S.F., CA 94103-3416.





WARNING:  Generic vegetarian information.  May be harmful to your meat-

eating

	

	When I first sat down to write this zine, I made a conscious 

decision not to include lots of vegetarian information.  I felt and still 

do feel that this information can be obtained from any number of sources, 

all of which would be better informed and more sincere than I.  But, I also 

realized something else--the first time I was exposed to vegetarianism was 

through a zine.  It was one of the first zines I ever read and, to me, these 

ideas were fresh and new.  Even though that zine was probably repeating 

what a thousand others had already said, it didn't matter to me, because I 

wasn't aware of anything but that zine.  Not to sound too melodramatic, but 

that zine changed my life.  So, on the assumption that someone out there is 

reading their first zine, I will say my two cents about vegetarianism.

	Instead of writing a long essay on the evils of carnivores, I will 

simply explain why it is all right to be a vegetarian.  That is to say that 

I will quickly debunk a few of society's myths.  The following is adapted 

from a New Jersey Animal Rights Alliance flyer called "Tossing Out Some Myths

About Vegetarianism", by Alex Hershaft, Ph.D.



1.   Vegetarians don't get enough protein.  Sorry guys, but the sad fact is 

that a vegetarian can easily get as much protein as a meat-eater.  The 

difference is that meat contains protein and fat, cholesterol, pesticides 

and antibiotics.

2.   Vegetarians need to be careful.  Nutritionally, not eating meat 

requires no special precautions as long as a balanced diet is followed.  

The only thing vegetarians need be careful of is putting the medical care, 

life insurance and meat processing industries out of business.

3.   Eating meat is nature's way.  Actually the human body is designed for 

a herbivorous diet.  Our flat, wide teeth, weak stomach acids and long 

digestive tracts are just right for a vegetable diet and all wrong for a 

meaty one.

4.   Farm animals are bred for food, so it's all right to kill them.  Were 

slaves meant to be enslaved?  That's called a cop-out.

5.   If vegetarianism is so good for you, the medical establishment would 

come out in support of it.  Researchers have been slowly realizing for the 

past thirty years that meat is a lethal part of the American diet, but the 

meat industry doesn't want you to know that.  Lobbying groups sponsored by 

the meat industry are what kept the FDA's food pyramid, which recommended 

that meat intake be decreased, delayed from release last year.  The dairy 

industry sponsors most of the nutritional information that is distributed 

to public schools.  The meat industry would be crippled by a massive 

conversion to vegetarianism.  Just remember, not eating meat does not hurt 

Farmer Bob and Bessie the Cow, who live and work on five acres in Missouri.  

It hurts multi-millionaires who make money off animal suffering.



	Please, I urge you to take the time to write one of the 

organizations below.  It will only cost you a stamp.  Well, actually, two 

stamps, since they would probably appreciate a stamp or self-addressed 

stamped envelope for their reply.  Even if you plan on staying a meat-eater, 

you should take the time to write these people.  They will send you tons of 

helpful information.  You deserve to know.



New Jersey Animal Rights Alliance

P.O. Box 703

Woodbridge, NJ 07095



American Vegan Society

501 Old Harding Highway

Malaga, NJ 08328



People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

P.O. Box 42516

Washington D.C. 20015-0516



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	It's called doublethink and it's one of the most important reasons

I can think of that you should get off your ass and read.  The word comes 

from George Orwell's 1984.  It means to accept everything that the 

government tells you as true, despite any obvious contradictions or lies.  

To do this, the individual must accept that everything the government does 

is good and virtuous and that the government is infallible.  Thus, the 

individual subconscious must weed out knowledge and awareness of the 

government's lies.

	There are two sides to every story, but as long as I give you one, 

you're happy.

	Iraqi soldiers were teenagers and kids.  Remember the newscasters 

bragging?  The United States Army was superior to Iraq's because Saddam 

Hussein forced children to serve in the army and gave them no training.  

All right!  America's #1!

	Aren't those the people we killed?  A hundred thousand of them.  

As well as the innocent citizens of Baghdad.

	Doublethink.

	Two sides.

	We have to read.  We have to educate ourselves.  Stephen King isn't 

good enough.  Neither is Danielle Steele.  Get off your ass and read about 

what matters.  Go read literature.  Not the sterilized shit they cram down 

your throat at school, but the real deal--Boroughs, Kerouac, Orwell.

	Nonfiction!

	The television does not educate it leaches.  You need to be rich 

to get on TV.  You need a few paychecks to put out a book.  The only way 

to change is to know.



               ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++



	I want to live in a society that doesn't discriminate based on age, 

race, sex or sexual orientation.  A society that accepts people who are 

different.  I want to live in a society where people are left alone to do 

what they please.  A society where people don't have a need or want to hurt

and kill each other.  A society free from greed.  A society free from 

poverty, hate and addiction.

	I know that I will never see this society, but I am going to work 

until I die to see at least part of it.  How can I accomplish this?  How 

can other like-minded people help me accomplish this?  I don't know exactly.  

I'll tell you how we won't.

	We won't accomplish any change in our current society if we follow 

its rules and take on its shortcomings.  Our society is violent.  

Can we affect a change in it with violence?  No.  Our society is hateful.  

Can we overcome it with our own hate?  No.  Our society is elitist.  Can we 

transform it by forming our own elite?  No.

	We must show the world that people can live without hurting each 

other.  We must show that people can live in peace.  We will fight back 

with nonviolence.  We will fight back with love.  We will crush its 

rigidness with the sheer force of our acceptance.

	Stop fighting.  Stop beating the shit out of people who share common 

goals.  Stop looking at everyone with disgust.  Hostility towards people 

who have not wronged you is pointless.  You turn them away instead of 

opening their eyes.

	Go out and change the world.  Bring some friends with you.













Chris is so crazy!  He's wearing socks!!!













This is harder than I thought it would be.











				Free

Finally

She has set me free

Free to dream

Free

to smile

Free to dance

Free

Sing

Feel

The chains have been cast

The clouds have been lifted

I can

Breathe



Breathe



Breathe

Deep

Take it in

Smell

The sweet air

Taste it

See the sun

Feel Warmth



Warmth

Fire

Spin Around

Float

Fly

Up

Way Up

Touch it

The sky

Heaven



Heaven



Hold it

My heart

Hers

Don't let it get cold

It happened once

It can happen again

No

Hold it to the sun

Be careful

If it freezes you'll die

She'll die

No



No



Up

Way Up

To the sun

Don't

Fall

Freeze

Get cold

Free

I won't let go

Free

If you won't

Free

Up

Way Up

Free

-Christa













				Left

Left

Behind, Alone

A solo grape

Could jump back in

But don't want to lie

Just don't feel right

Something inside

Pretend

No

Left

Aside, One

Just the blue crayon without the other 7

I was here first

Don't know what to say

Could try to understand

Isolated again

Hurt

Yes

Left

Black, Crying

A broken heart

There is no glue

Could lead somewhere else

Don't want to

Want my own stuff back

They took it away

Scared

Yes

Left

I can't describe

Left

What I feel is very real to me

Lost

Yes

Left

Can you understand?

Don't want to say the wrong thing

Missed out on this part of your life

Yes

Left

It's not your fault

I blame you

No

Don't get mad

Trying to deal

Yes

Left

Let's hope not for long

Left

In the background, In the wind

-Christa











				Find the Way

If only,

I could understand,

I knew why.

Why she did this,

To us.

Why did she drive a dagger,

Through the one thing,

The most precious of all things,

Which I hold so sacred.

With words so harsh,

Words so strong,

That not the power of a tornado,

Could tear them from the core of my soul,

And throw them back at her,

As if to say that I do not care.

But caring is the mere beginning,

Beginning of the long journey,

Whose destination is love.

I love all things.

Even the producer of my tears.

These tears drip off my chin,

Falling like a fountain of guilt.

Guilt for not being the person,

The person who she can love.

For if you love,

You must love all things.

There is so much hate,

It lives inside her,

In a place where I once found life,

It is for so many things surrounding my heart.

Compassion is lost.

Lost in the throwing of cruel words,

Lost in the demolishing of feelings.

Lost in a cold, dark place,

Yet it must be strong.

Only then can it find its way.

And along with this compassion,

This love,

I pray, 

That I too,

Can find my way back.

Back to my mother.

-Marisa





				Chaos

Boxes of chaos

Controlled

Discrete units of infinity

The fractals of life

Like peanut butter

Chained

A prison of mulch

Boxes of chaos

Where one cannot love

The other

Trapped in a box

Aluminum siding

At right angles

Live in a box

Grow in a box

Work in a box

Of chaos

Boxy cars

Petrol reactions

All contained within a box

Controlled by a lack of control

Helpless

But clean

A box in your head

To keep all your big ideas

Chained

Reject

Deny

Control

Defy

Why cry?

Let it

Chaos upon chaos

A chaotic order

Don't fool yourself

Let it

Fibrillations

Sensations

Opened wide

Feel it

Swallow it

Bathe in it

Breathe it

Let it

Peace

-Chris







The walls are up again

left from the struggle fought back then

pain inside keeps us out

our frustration is what we shout

shout it at our wall

no one will ever respond at all

feelings of anguish which they use to bind us

images of color which are there to blind us

it makes me angry cause they cannot see

the walls they've formed around you & me

- Sean







	This zine was originally published on paper in June 1993.  I have

adapted it to this electronic format so that it can be spread farther and

more ecologically.  If you have read and enjoted this zine, please feel free

to upload it to another BBS so that it can be circulated more.  But please

allow people to see it in its original form and do not alter it in any way.

Everything contained within this file is copyrighted to Fat Nipples.

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				Fat Nipples

				c/o Chris

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