Davey Havok – AFI

Davey Havok is best known as the singer for American goth-punk band AFI (A Fire Inside). Other musical projects have included Son of Sam, with members of Samhain and Danzig, Blaqk Audio and XTRMST with AFI guitarist Jade Puget, and Dreamcar with members of No Doubt. Davey has also dabbled in acting, with various small roles including playing St Jimmy in Green Day’s American Idiot musical on Broadway.

Why Davey Havok is vegan

Davey is a long-time vegan, being involved in the vegan straight-edge punk scene in the early nineties. Davey was vegetarian due to his concern for animal suffering before he became vegan, influenced by the vegan straight-edge music scene, which educated him “on both the perils of factory farms and the healthfulness of a plant-based diet.”¹Ortlieb, M. 2022. An Interview with AFI’s Davey Havok. VegOut. Available: https://vegoutmag.com/interviews/davey-havok-interview/ [Accessed 19 May 2026]. Ultimately, it was the book, Diet For A New America by Dr. John Robbins, that made him switch to veganism for good.

Davey has also created several limited edition cruelty-free clothes lines and has campaigned against the leather industry by posing naked for a I’d Rather Go Naked Than Wear Leather campaign.²Peta. 2021. AFI’s Davey Havok Happily Goes Naked Rather Than Wearing Leather. Available: https://www.peta.org/features/davey-havok-rather-go-naked-leather/ [Accessed 16 March 2021]. On The Chickpeeps podcast he said, “it’s absolutely unacceptable to torture and murder animals simply for our enjoyment.”³The Chickpeeps. 2021. S3, Ep17: Davey Havok. Available: https://www.thechickpeeps.com/episodes/2021/2/3/s3-ep17-davey-havok [Accessed 16 March 2021].

“I think veganism is strong in the punk community because punks have long stood against meretricious social standards. Punks ask ‘why’ even when the question is uncomfortable. For instance. ‘Why is it okay for us to torture and murder innocent creatures for our own enjoyment?’ Despite global moral dissonance, it’s not.”⁴Ortlieb, M. 2022. An Interview with AFI’s Davey Havok. VegOut. Available: https://vegoutmag.com/interviews/davey-havok-interview/ [Accessed 19 May 2026].