Morrissey calls Michael Eavis "an animal hater" • News • DIY Magazine

In an outspoken tirade of fury, The Smiths frontman and renowned bigmouth Morrissey has slammed Glastonbury boss Michael Eavis. Referring to Eavis’ day job as a dairy farmer, he called him “an animal hater,” before proceeding to conjure up some fairly heavy imagery. While he does detail aspects of cruelty within the farming industry, he also, somewhat bizarrely, expresses disappointment that Eavis does not invite non milk-yielding cows into his house to freely watch soap operas.

“I assume that the dairy cows at Glastonbury who no longer yield milk are brought into the home of Michael Eavis and allowed to sit down and watch Emmerdale until they gently pass away in their later years,” Morrissey spat on his official site. “After all, Michael insists that Glastonbury cows are ‘very happy’. In truth, of course, as soon as a cow is a substandard producer of milk, she and her friends are sent off to have their throats slit. We can easily imagine Michael Eavis waving the cattle truck off, and we can see his cows being ‘very happy’ about that, and waving back to Michael.”

“Like many animal haters,” he continued, “Michael Eavis was awarded a CBE by Elizabeth Battenberg (you have been ordered to address her as The Queen) in 2007. In 2005 he expressed how it was “outrageous to ban hunting”. For such as Michael Eavis, there just cannot be enough bloodshed. More! More! More! Kill! Kill! Kill! Would he object if the hunters were also hunted?”

Read Morrissey’s full statement, entitled ‘Glastonbury is not animal friendly’ on his official website.

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