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Always outspoken and full of poetic bile, Morrissey has slammed Glastonbury boss Michael Eavis as an 'animal hater' who 'rapes' cows through his farming methods.
The Smiths icon turned solo star took his official fansite and mouth-piece True-To-You with a lengthy message entitled 'Glastonbury is not animal friendly' - saying that the dairy farmer and festival legend was guilty of 'persistently raping cows' through his methods.
"In order to 'have the highest milk yield in the county', a cow must be persistently 'raped' against its will (a logical assumption), or it must be artificially inseminated from the age of 13 months onwards, or injected with bovine growth hormone," wrote Morrissey.
"The latter is banned (that is, frowned upon) in the UK, but since farmers pay no heed to the law when it comes to gassing badgers, shooting foxes or hunting, then we're safe to assume that the bovine growth hormone practice continues. In the UK, the farmers' financial gluttony is unassailably up there with the holy scriptures. Dairy cows are not allowed to not be in lactation because then their milk production decreases and they do not produce enough milk to justify the cost of their board and lodgings. Therefore, cows are repeatedly raped and raped and raped … which Michael Eavis presumably thinks is a great way to make sentient beings happy.
"Dairy cows are only allowed to live for as long as they are useful to the farmer, which is about 4 years. If left alone, the cow could live for 20 years."
He continued: “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, because, 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.”
Quite a lot of frightening imagery there, Moz.
Speaking of his own experience of his last Glasto performance, Morrissey said: "In 2011 I played Glastonbury and attempted to sing the song 'Meat is Murder'. Behind me, a screen that usually shows the many evils of factory farming remained blank. I was told that Michael Eavis had stopped the screening of the film because it wasn't indicative of how his dairy farm operated."
Taking aim at mortal enemy Her Majesty The Queen as well, he added: "Like many animal haters, 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?"
Watch Morrissey perform at Glastonbury below
Meanwhile, this week sees the window close for those wishing to pay off the credit on their Glastonbury to do so, before cancelled, refunded and unpaid tickets go back on sale.
The re-sale is of ticket packages that have been cancelled or refunded during the recent period of payment. From 6pm on Thursday 16 April, fans will be able to ticket and coach packages, before general admission tickets go on re-sale from 9am on Sunday 19 April.
So far, we have two confirmed headliners in the form of Foo Fighters and Kanye West - as well as the likes of Lionel Richie, Courtney Barnett and Father John Misty. Glastonbury 2015 takes place at Worthy Farm from 24 - 28 June, with other rumoured headliners including Paul McCartney, Elton John, Taylor Swift, Queen and more. We assume Morrissey will not be performing.
