Former frontman of the 80s band The Smiths, (Saint) Morrissey is a well-known animal rights sympathiser. He spent much of the 90s exiled in the USA, where for some reason it’s a minor celebrity cause: he was winner of last year’s PetA Linda McCartney Memorial Award, no less.  Now, a fan’s question to the online Morrissey fanzine True To You asks him for his “message to the world to make life better for animals on our planet.” Unfortunately, the best that Morrissey could come up with was:

"I support the efforts of the Animal Rights Militia in England and I understand why fur-farmers and so-called laboratory scientists are repaid with violence - it is because they deal in violence themselves and it’s the only language they understand - the same principals that apply to war. You reach a point where you cannot reason with people. This is why the Animal Rights Militia and the Hunt Saboteurs exist. They are usually very intelligent people who are forced to act because the law is shameful or amoral."

After some barbed comments about carnivorous celebrity chefs Jamie Oliver and Clarissa Dickson Wright, and an attack on hunting, he concludes “Everybody needs to hate something, it seems.”
In a Sunday Times article, Clarissa Dickson Wright responded “He’s probably cracked from a lack of animal protein,” while a spokesperson for HLS said “People can have whatever opinions they want, but to condone and encourage acts of violence is entirely wrong and should not be allowed in a democracy.”