Adams apologizes for racist rant

Canadian rock musician Bryan Adams has apologized for Monday’s social media rant. “Apologies to any and all that took offence to my posting yesterday,” Adams, a longtime animal-rights activist and vegan, wrote in an Instagram post on Tuesday. “No excuse, I just wanted to have a rant about the horrible animal cruelty in these wet-markets being the possible source of the virus, and promote veganism.” Adams had posted a video accompanied by an expletive-laden caption blaming “bat eating, wet market animal selling, virus making greedy bastards” for the coronavirus outbreak. Critics pointed out the racist nature of his comments, understood to be directed at Chinese people.