{"id":49551,"date":"2026-05-12T12:27:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T12:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=49551"},"modified":"2026-05-12T12:27:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T12:27:44","slug":"billie-eilish-hits-back-after-facing-backlash-over-privileged-comment-about-eating-meat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=49551","title":{"rendered":"Billie Eilish hits back after facing backlash over &#8216;privileged&#8217; comment about eating meat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Billie Eilish has responded to her critics who have hailed her a &#8216;hypocrite&#8217; for her recent comments on meat-eaters.Eilish was raised vegetarian and has been a vegan for over a decade. She&#8217;s extremely passionate about animals and recently ruffled a few feathers after stating that &#8216;eating meat is inherently wrong&#8217;.The Grammy Award-winning singer, who recently went public with her romance with boyfriend Nat Wolff at the premiere of her new movie, was asked by ELLE in a recent interview: &#8220;What hill would you die on?&#8221;Eilish, 24, replied: &#8220;Y&#8217;all are not going to like me for this one\u2026 eating meat is inherently wrong.&#8221;And the other thing is, two things can not coincide: &#8216;I love animals. I love all animals so much, and I eat meat.&#8217; You just can&#8217;t do both, sorry.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t long until people started sharing their thoughts on the &#8216;bad guy&#8217; hitmaker&#8217;s remarks.One critic said: &#8220;It is SO privileged, do you know how expensive that vegan s**t is?&#8221;You can appreciate and love animals while still understanding that we are animals ourselves and need to eat,&#8221; insisted another.Now Eilish has responded the backlash and took to her Instagram Stories to do so.After sharing a series of graphic and difficult to watch clips of animals like pigs and cows being badly treated, the 24-year-old went on to write: &#8220;Go watch a documentary or two and some footage of what is done to the animals u claim to love and what it does to the planet u pretend to love as well. if that footage was hard for u to watch i encourage u to pls take a look at urself.&#8221;Like i am so tired of standing up for\/having empathy for living beings being controversial. pls continue to live in a constant state of cognitive dissonance and denial and try to convince urself that ur not living a lie.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billie Eilish has responded to her critics who have hailed her a &#8216;hypocrite&#8217; for her recent comments on meat-eaters.Eilish was raised vegetarian and has been a vegan&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":49552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":31,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49553,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49551\/revisions\/49553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}