MORRISSEY, the wacky, outspoken former lead singer of The Smiths, has compared meat-eaters to pedophiles.
In a Q & A for his fansite true-to-you.net, Morrissey was asked "what is it that prompted you to stop eating meat?".
"I see no difference between eating animals and pedophilia," he replied.
"They are both rape, violence, murder. If I'm introduced to anyone who eats beings, I walk away. Imagine, for example, if you were in a nightclub and someone said to you `Hello, I enjoy bloodshed, throat-slitting and the destruction of life', well, I doubt if you'd want to exchange phone numbers".
He was also asked what new laws he would like to see passed for animals to which he responded with a bizarre answer citing The Queen, Jamie Oliver and Cilla Black.
"I would like the Queen of England to be asked why she wears an electrocuted bear-cub on her head. I would like to ask all so-called celebrity chefs why they believe that animals should have no right to live.
"If Jamie 'Orrible is so certain that flesh-food is tasty then why doesn't he stick one of his children in a microwave? It would taste the same as cooked lamb.
"The singer Cilla Black recently appeared on television telling us how she was preparing leg of lamb for dinner, and since a lamb is a baby, I wondered what kind of mind Cilla Black could possibly have that would convince her that eating a baby is OK".
Morrissey said he would like to see all governments forced to engage an Animal Protectionist MP, as well as a ban on zoos and circuses.
"I would like every television commercial that promotes 'flesh-food' to be followed by a commercial showing how the living pig and the living cow become the supermarket commodity, step by step".