Vegan Reich
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Vegan Reich were a 1980s American punk band formed by Sean Muttaqi. The band advocated a similar ethical stance to the straight edge philosophy (they did not drink alcohol/do drugs), but took it to a more extreme conclusion, i.e. advocating the development of a vegan society, where people that violate the laws of that society could possibly face 'extermination'. Followers of the band were sometimes also involved in the deep ecology movement called Hardline, and expressed a rhetoric that seemed to be a strange hybrid of both anarchism and extreme authoritarianism (if you violated someone's rights, you could be subject to losing your own). The band reunited briefly in 1999 to produce the album Jihad. The band's current status is ambiguous.
See also: hardcore punk