Morrissey recently revealed in a Q&A interview on his fansite, True-to-You.net, that he compares eating meat to paedophilia, he said:

"If you have access to YouTube, you should click on to what is called 'The video the meat industry doesn’t want you to see,

"If this doesn’t affect you in a moral sense then you’re probably granite. I see no difference between eating animals and paedophilia. They are both rape, violence, murder."

Morrissey, who has recently confirmed he is writing a novel, continues:

"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 went on to give his opinion on celebrity chef, Jamie Oliver, he said:

"If Jamie ‘Orrible is so certain that flesh-food is tasty then why doesn’t he stick one of his children in a microwave?”

Morrissey also compares abbatoirs to Auschwitz, he said:

"If you believe in the abattoir then you would support Auschwitz. There’s no difference. People who would disagree with this statement have probably never been inside an abattoir."

Watch Morrissey at the Nobel Peace Prize concert and one of the YouTube abbatoir videos he refers to below: